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...anyone who thinks that Gaitskell and Mollet differ from Stalin and Khrushchev only in degree is obviously suffering from the strain of overwork. In two by-elections last week, the voters gave their own reading of the political quarreling. The Tories managed to hold two seats in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Becken-ham, but in both cases suffered a loss of votes to the Socialists. In Newcastle-on-Tyne the Tory percentage dropped by 3½%, in Beckenham by 6%. In all, the Tories have suffered losses or reduced percentages in every by-election since Suez, and since Macmillan succeeded...
...dignitaries broke precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter was: "Thank heaven Eden had the guts to take firm action." Though Labor M.P.s harangued crowds from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Southampton on the theme of "law not war," their impact seemed to be diminishing. A worried Tory campaign manager thought that Eden seemed to have most people with him "but this thing could change any moment." Though the Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the government, the Archbishop of York...
Stopgap. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Mrs. Edna Reed got a divorce after testifying that her husband concluded a family argument by plugging her mouth with a raw herring...
Wages had jumped more than 4% in the past three months, and more demands were on the way. "Another round of wage increases, such as we have had in the last two years, could be disastrous," said Macmillan flatly, in a speech at Newcastle upon Tyne. "I do not use the word lightly. I use it advisedly and with a full sense of responsibility...
...Southwest in Exeter, Devonshire. The British Drama League holds two sessions, one at Chichester August 1 to 15, and the other at Alnwick, August 31 to September 9, on "Drama and the Theater." The University of Durham sponsors a training program for would-be archaeologists at Corbridge-on-Tyne in late July...