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...away." As the press conference broke up, Macmillan turned to his wife, Lady Dorothy, said, "La commedia e finita." He had boldly played the game of politics for 40 years-23 on the front bench, 17 in office, and seven as Prime Minister (the longest continuous rule since Asquith resigned...
...longest time, The Game (that's charades, to non-swells) has been the In sport at society dos. But Florida's best-dressed Jean Harvey Vanderbilt has a new one, a sort of pin-the-tag-on-the-horsy. "Naming a yearling can be a wonderful icebreaker," says the wife of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. And they already have quite a collection of monikers for their just-named two-year-olds. There's Kiss of Death, a daughter of Femme Fatale, Gone Goose, by Crafty Admiral out of Sitting Duck, and Shakedown Cruise, by Sailor...
...second person in the U.S. to own a registered Belgian Malinois, whose real name, le Malinois, chien de berger a poll court fauve charbonne, is the longest in dogdom. Apartment dwellers-or at least their neighbors-will favor the Basenji, a terrier-sized hunting dog once kept by the Egyptian pharaohs that never barks. But he whines, groans and gargles, and when happy makes a noise described as "a cross between a croon and a yodel." As for burglars-packs of Basenjis are used to hunt gorillas in their native Africa...
...effects of New York's 114-day newspaper strike, longest in the city's history, linger on. Last week: - The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of the Publishers Association of New York to shut down all papers if any one is struck. The publishers' move had been challenged by Local No. 6 of the New York Mailers Union, on the grounds that its members were not a party to the strike and that they had been locked out of their jobs. But the Appeals court, affirming an earlier National Labor Relations Board ruling, found such...
...Irving last week was up to his bald crown in one of the longest labor disputes yet witnessed by economically depressed New Brunswick. It began 19 weeks ago, when 145 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union stomped out of Irving's $52 million Saint John refinery protesting that their hourly wages-$1.55 to $2.30-were 75? below the industry's average in Canada. The walkout has since spread westward to other parts of the Irving Oil Co. Labor views the Saint John strike as a battle of principle to extend standard industry wages...