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Last week, in the arc-lighted ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, before a tough audience of some 200 newshawks and cameramen, the trim, grey-suited American told Britons some harsh truths - with a chaser of enthusiasm and hope...
Chances were that the Senate would put back some, if not all, of the cuts. The Republican compromise worked out by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles would trim the funds for Europe to an even billion. "But," said Dulles, "there will be no disposition to be foolish and bullheaded about it. That was one of the reasons why the Administration's bill got such bad treatment...
...revolution of sorts in British industry and a sharp reduction in some of Labor's pet projects. It would also require efficient redeployment of British workers to industries where they are needed most; that would cause temporary unemployment. The hard fact is that Britain cannot whip herself into trim competitive shape without at least temporarily lowering her standard of living...
...Estoril, Portugal, Displaced Personage Carol Hohenzollern, 55, exiled ex-King of Rumania, ceremoniously repeated the nuptial vows he took at her "deathbed" two years ago with trim, redhaired, green-eyed Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, 52. In a full-dress Greek Orthodox service he made his uncrowned queen of 25 years the crownless Princess Elena...
Before the Senate Banking and Currency committee last week, a trim, grey-haired woman slowly read this West Virginia coal miner's account of his fight with life...