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...legal authority to be near dictator of France. A few hours before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...
...loss to Princeton. Diana already has "an assured $30,000-a-year income for life and a $100,000 cash gift," said Davis. He could "only attribute her unreasonable selfishness to the unrealistic materialism prevalent among American youth of today." When he some day asks Son Shelby to relinquish his own trust, added Davis, who knows a thing or two about materialism, he hopes the lad will show "more understanding of his responsibility to society...
...open to treble-damage civil suits by purchasers of its diesels, if the trial proves-as the Government believes it will-that G.M.'s monopoly in the market resulted in higher prices. The Justice Department also intends to start a civil suit to try to force G.M. to relinquish all or part of its locomotive business...
...have little trouble in putting the mixed bag of U.S. aid agencies under a single head. And cold war crises will doubtless warm up support for the President's request for $4 billion for fiscal 1962. But Congress will be reluctant to authorize long-term loans and to relinquish its own year-to-year grasp on the purse strings. "If we don't get it," said the President at his press conference, "I think we'll continue to see some of the drift we've seen in these programs in the past...
...Northern Rhodesia's black leaders want total power, and its whites are not prepared to relinquish any. As the constitutional talks in London dragged on for weeks, the white settlers boycotted them, while the black leaders attended and fumed. When Macleod finally gave both sides a look at his proposed compromise, they erupted. In Salisbury, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a strapping ex-boxer who speaks for the white settlers, stormed: "The vicious influence of African nationalism has apparently turned the bone marrow of many metropolitan countries to jelly. I intend to stem that tide...