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...Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), occupies a post whose previous incumbents have often been primarily famed for their ability to speak at great length without saying anything at all.* In sharp departure from this cherished British diplomatic tradition. Lord Home, 57, is addicted to clear and candid statements that sometimes border on indiscretion. Last week, just before flying off to Bangkok for the critical SEATO meeting on Laos, Lord Home confided to a Tory meeting some of his thoughts on British foreign policy. Items...
...woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared...
Montgomery circuit court juries have already handed two city officials-Police Commissioner L. (for Lester) B. Sullivan and Mayor Earl D. James-all they asked for: $500,000 each. Remaining to be tried, on identical evidence, are the suits of Montgomery Public Works Commissioner Frank Parks (asking $500,000) and Alabama Governor John M. Patterson ($1,000,000). Belatedly deciding that the ad had injured him too, former Montgomery Police Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers last week brought additional suit...
...Intellectuals. The News was so hard on Harry Truman that he once complained that "it has treated me like a pickpocket." It has called Washington the Negro capital of the U.S. It is merciless toward the Supreme Court: "Court-nik," editorialized the News, has "surrendered to subversion." Chief Justice Earl Warren is a particular bête noire of News Editorial Columnist Lynn Landrum: "Earl Warren would not make a good, reliable justice of the peace." The News stands against intellectuals ("during the last 20 years they have been wrong by a wider margin than any other group that...
Died. Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 91, the ninth Earl of Shaftesbury, senior member of the House of Lords, a World War I brigadier who served as a private in World War II because his age barred him from a commission, and who, as longtime Lord Steward for King George V, was in charge of everything from giving out alms to keeping the peace among members of the Royal Household staff; after a short illness; in Salisbury, England...