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...killed King Ananda Mahidol? For close to nine years, Siamese have asked the question-privately, over the tinkle of thousands of teacups; publicly, in one of the longest murder hearings in history...
...longest Cabinet meeting in the nine years of the Fourth Republic. For 8½ hours Premier Mendés-France listened to the protests of his political colleagues, readvanced his argument, and finally got his way: the appointment of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, 43, as governor general of Algeria. When they heard the news, opposition Deputies cried "à la soupe!" (i.e., gravy). In his own Radical Party, Mendés had to face severe criticism. Said ex-Premier René Mayer: "This action may gain the Prime Minister votes from some other quarters, but it may well cost him an equal...
...Treasury Department decided to try something it has not dared touch since 1953. Secretary George Humphrey announced that holders of $2.6 billion worth of 2⅞ bonds maturing next month will have the choice of exchanging them for short-term notes or a new 4O-year, 3% bond, the longest-term U.S. obligation since a 1911 issue to help finance the Panama Canal. Unlike the famed 3¼% 30-year issue of 1953, which was attacked as too drastic a credit tightener and soon fell below par, the new 40-year bond will raise no new money...
Alabama. On Montgomery's hilly Dexter Avenue, banners fluttered with the phrase "Y'all come.'' Theater marquees proclaimed: "Welcome Back, Jim." Alabama put on its longest (twelve miles) and loudest (126 bands) parade for the U.S.'s tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) governor: Big Jim Folsom, 46, making a comeback after one sorry term, a bastardy suit in 1948 (later dismissed) and other troubles. Once famed as "Kissin' Jim," a whisky-drinking merry widower, he remarried, paraded in an Oldsmobile convertible, with his pretty wife and six children (two by his first wife, four...
...scene of 16 disorders, including riots and attempted escapes. Last week, in the 17th and most spectacular try, four armed convicts held five guards and six fellow prisoners hostage, and kept the combined forces of the National Guard and prison authorities at bay for 82 hours, the second-longest prison siege in history (the longest: 100 hours, in 1952, at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, at Jackson). Scene of the attempted break was the Detention Demerit Building, popularly known as Cherry Hill, where the prison's most unruly criminals are kept...