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Prime Minister Diefenbaker, 61, is a Saskatchewan lawyer who lost five elections before he finally reached Parliament at the age of 44. An unknown who won leadership of the minority Tory Party last December mostly because his demoralized colleagues thought he could lead the way honorably to inevitable defeat, he instead took the party to victory by an exhausting personal effort. He knows, likes and respects the U.S. But his brow darkens and he grows snappishly critical at even such a small economic friction as last month's unloading of low-priced U.S. turkeys onto the Ontario market. Dulles...
...Unknown to each other, Observer Goëau-Brissonnière and Lawyer Chaker caught the same Air France plane. At Paris' Orly Airport the French diplomat was greeted with a message that his car was waiting for him. Chaker was stopped by a plainclothesman who flashed papers and said, "Follow me." Interrogated that night, Chaker was charged next morning with "threatening the foreign security of the state." Unaware that a representative of the Paris government had been secretly talking with the FLN, somebody in French intelligence had got wind of Chaker's mission to Ben Bella...
...winter planning recording schedules. The company transformed the Rome Opera's marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...
...Summer School, numerically, that is. But the rate is slowing down. A preliminary report, released yesterday by Summer School Registrar Stanley Leonard shows that of the 2865 who have filed final study lists, 1634 or 57.13 percent are men, 1230 or 42.87 percent are women. One individual is of "unknown" sex, the report says...
Immediately Presidium Member Andrei Kirilenko, a virtual unknown from Sverdlovsk, attacked Molotov, saying that the party conservatives were "responsible for the outcry against the Soviet Union." And in a three-hour speech Khrushchev charged that the Malenkov group, operating from a headquarters in Moscow, with ramifications throughout the Soviet Union and in the Foreign Ministry and Soviet embassies abroad, had frustrated his attempts at a reconciliation with Yugoslavia's Tito in 1954, and had sabotaged his efforts to lull the West with his "relaxation-of-tensions" campaign...