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...observers generally give Defferre high marks as an articulate, engaging personality and a fine, practical politician. Yet he is given little chance of breaking De Gaulle's lordly hold on the French voter. Defferre hopefully points to Britain's postwar rejection of glory-minded Winston Churchill for the prosaic, practical Clement Attlee. The French, too, he feels, may be tired of glory, and he is quite content to picture himself as a Gallic Attlee...
When Edward Heath served as a parliamentary whip under Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Tories squeaked through a vote by a particularly thin margin, the old man comforted the younger: "In the House of Commons, one vote is enough." Last week Ted Heath, now President of the Board of Trade, had the uncomfortable opportunity to test that axiom. The Tories, who nowadays can usually muster a majority of 80 votes or so, just barely managed to survive a vote by the wafer-thin margin...
...tell Jack Ruby's lawyers without a scorecard. Only a few days after Melvin Belli was fired, Houston's wealthy Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, hired to replace Belli, got annoyed with family kibitzers and quit. To replace Foreman, Ruby's brothers and sister hired Professor Hubert Winston Smith, 56, head of the University of Texas law school's Law-Science Institute. Smith said he would charge no fee. His first pronouncement was that he would ask the court to permit a new series of medical and mental tests on Jack Ruby...
Died. Thomas Winston Briggs, 77, founder and president of Welcome Wagon International, who in 1928, out of "a desire to contribute to human happiness," first set Welcome Wagon hostesses to dropping in on newcomers in town with baskets of gifts from local merchants, a system so beneficial to trade that Briggs extended the system to 2,000 U.S. and Canadian cities, collected fees from merchants (at $10 to $30 a basket) that in the last decade alone came to well over $100 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...gently dignified but bloodless, Christ's bookkeeper rather than his vicar. While Hochhuth robs Pius of all stature, even he cannot deprive him of sound sense. The Pope reminds Father Riccardo of the mounting Communist danger from the East, thus proving at least as prophetic as Winston Churchill at Fulton, Mo. Pius keeps silent, he tells Father Riccardo, to prevent worse misfortunes -and Hochhuth is scarcely in a position to argue that Hitler was not capable of further madness. But like Hochhuth, Father Riccardo sees himself as holier than the Pope, and he leaves Pius' presence with...