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Cold as Tombs. The bitterest strike of recent times had lasted 13 weeks, the longest major strike since 1950. Some 50,000 of Westinghouse's 116,000 employees were out, and almost half of the company's 98 plants (e.g., those producing atomic reactors, electronic tubes, air conditioners) sat as cold and motionless as tombs. At most. 4,500 of the strikers had crossed the picket lines and gone back to work...
...cannot command the votes to win. If Morrison were elected, 58-year-old Nye might yet have his turn when Morrison retired, but if 49-year-old Gaitskell wins, Bevan will have been passed over, and probably for good. Over the years, Morrison and Bevan have been the bitterest of personal rivals...
Gaitskell accused Butler of deliberately misleading Britons with his talk of Tory prosperity. "Always an expert on evasion, he has become an addict of the easy half-truth." The Socialist's peroration was one of the bitterest personal attacks the House of Commons has heard since the Churchill-Bevan feuds. "I bear [the Chancellor] no personal animosity,'' Gaitskell said. "But his record in this past year is frankly deplorable . . . He began in folly, he continued in deceit, and he has ended in reaction . . . Let him go to the Prime Minister and . . . lay down the burden...
That Special Poison. As the Deputies reassembled to decide Faure's fate, General Adolphe Aumeran, spokesman for Algeria's bitterest diehards, said cavernously: "The fall of the Cabinet would only have happy consequences." But most Deputies were in a chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute...
...ornamented music room of Spiridonovka Palace in Moscow, the great gaunt Chancellor of West Germany clasped hands with the masters of Russia. It was the signal that Europe's bitterest enemies had grudgingly come to terms...