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...lived. Considered the toughest man in the Commons, Sandys met his match in Australia's determined Prime Minister Menzies. Though only 25% of Australia's exports go to Britain, and the nation's economy is far more balanced than agricultural New Zealand's, Menzies was ada mant against Britain's entry into the Market. In four days of tough bargaining, Sandys failed even to win approval for Britain to open negotiations. According to an aide, Sandys was "shocked and flabbergasted." It took nine hours to draft the final brief communique. Virtually dictated by Menzies...
Stirred into the soil, Avadex (Monsanto Chemical Co.) kills wild oats just as seeds begin to sprout. Carbyne (Spencer Chemical Co.) is sprayed on weed seedlings causing them to turn blue and shrivel, while surrounding wheat continues to thrive. Tested on wheatfields in Can ada and the U.S., the two chemicals have been a spectacular success, sometimes boosting an area's yield by as much as 15 bu. an acre. They will get their first full-scale workout this spring on the rolling wheatland of Western Canada...
...civic servant and foreign policy-conscious candidate through meetings with Harvard professors who supported his candidacy from the start. Samuel H. Beer and Mark DeWolfe Howe apparently saw in O'Connor the makings of a good liberal senator and embraced his cause before the primary. They, and others with ADA leanings, also helped advise him on policy during the heat of the campaign. From them O'Connor picked up facts and opinion that he later combined into his appeal that "everything is not rosy" and that "we must get this country-moving again...
...annual Tennis Tournament, which has been going on for the last three weeks, will conclude Friday. Jane McDermid--who has reached the finals in two other categories--yesterday won the women's singles, defeating Pauline Bray. These two will pair up this afternoon against Mary Rosen and Ada Dziewanowski in the finals of the women's doubles...
...Died. Ada Everleigh, 93, regal co-madam (with her late sister, Minna) of Chicago's lavish turn-of-the-century bordello, the Everleigh Club, which boasted a bevy of demure girls, string music, perfume-squirting fountains and a 1,000-volume library at a price of $100 for a "mild evening," was finally closed by severe reformers in 1911, sending the millionaire sisters off to retirement in Manhattan with a golden piano and a few other mementos of the good old glittering days; in Chicago...