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...most effective way for a French Premier to stay in office is to avoid hard decisions and, if possible, even forthright expressions of opinion. Under Henri Queuille, the colorless compromiser, this technique made a name for itself: L'im-mobilisme. Queuille hung on as Premier for 388 days-a record for postwar France. Last week France's postwar Premier, Joseph Laniel, was hot on Queuille's trail. By an astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party...
After the ships dropped anchor, the British commander paid a formal call on the admiral, his senior in rank. With im peccable punctilio, he asked permission to show his orders from the British Ad miralty "to escort the ship of the Argentine minister while it is navigating in the waters of Her Majesty." Not to be outdone, Olivieri replied that he would be pleased to act as guide for the British ship as long as it was navigating in Argentine waters...
...Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried, 'Walt, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...
Phenomenal Slice. Perhaps more im portant than the cut in expenditures is the budget's reduction in "new obligational authority," i.e., authority to make contracts (45% of the actual spending proposed in the 1955 budget will be from obligational authority granted in earlier years). The President asked for $56.3 billion of such authority, $4.4 billion less than the current year, $23.9 billion less than 1953's total and $35.1 billion below the Korean war peak in fiscal...
...North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters" got off with long prison terms...