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...made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support the manufacture of the H-bomb here." Thereupon a noisy revolt broke out in the Labor Party...
...from a seething crowd and tried to put the Egyptian flag in place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces of the U.N. had fired "at civilian inhabitants," Nasser announced that Egypt would "assume its responsibilities in the strip immediately." He appointed Major...
...ordered a postmortem, found that he had been beaten to death. Explanation by the British police: Panayiotou had attempted to escape custody. Yet another case was that of Maria Anastasiou Lambrou who, after her Greek-speaking interrogator had punched her on the nose, warned him that she was pregnant. Thereupon the interrogator had told her that unless she told him the whereabouts of EOKA's top man, Colonel Grivas, she would suffer a miscarriage, which after two subsequent attacks, she did. Constable 1413 brought her a cup of tea, and she was taken to the hospital...
...advice to a deferential huddle of ad-agency men. Last week Veteran Adman Emerson Foote, 50, a prototype for one of the leading characters in Wakeman's fiction, took the advice in real life, chin-chinned with himself and with his associates and spun the compass. He thereupon quit as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson, world's second largest ad agency (after J. Walter Thompson), surrendering a salary "well up in six figures." Said he: "Last year I flew 64,000 scheduled airline miles and found myself concentrating on meeting problems. I got tired of spot-welding...
...sorry showing" the Democrats made in the 1956 election was made by "sorry politicians," said Kerr Scott last week. As for himself, he would rather be safe than sorry, thereupon proclaimed the immediate opening of a four-year campaign for re-election...