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...exceedingly narrow margin, Australia's free-enterprising Liberal government hung onto power this week. From the hot white sands of Woomera to the waterfalls of Tasmania, across a vast and booming land almost the size of the U.S., 4,800,000 Aussies cast their (compulsory) ballots and divided them so evenly that Labor, the loser, actually got some 200,000 more votes than the victors. It was only because the electoral gerrymanders favor rural constituencies (where the Liberal coalition is strong) that the government kept control of the House of Representatives by at least seven seats. But the margin...
...speech. For the second time in eight days, to bolster France's search for peace at Geneva, Joseph Laniel was staking his Cabinet's continuation in office on a vote of confidence. He had survived the first vote (before the fall of Dienbienphu) by a comfortable margin, 311 to 262. This time he realized that his government might fall...
Joseph Laniel survived the balloting by the narrowest margin-two votes-of his 10½-month tenure as Premier. The count showed 289 votes for, 287 against, with 33 abstentions. The French press called the result a "suspended sentence," and many a man in the street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...
...pounded down the homestretch. One by one, the Dancer passed tiring horses until only Straight Face remained. Then, some 30 yards from the finish, the Dancer caught Straight Face and flashed under the wire in 1:351/5, just two-fifths of a second off the track record. The winning margin: a neck, as usual. The Metropolitan brought Native Dancer's score to 20 victories in 21 starts, Man o' War's record...
...Gene Littler, Ted Kroll and Ed Oliver. The crusher gave Snead an insurmountable lead: 52 points to 18 for Runners-Up Gary Middlecoff, defending champion, and Jack Burke. On the final round, instead of relaxing, Snead shot a 65, lowest round of the tournament, and won by the biggest margin in the 16-year history of the Round Robin, beating Runner-Up Toski by 36 points...