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...those who though they were well rid of Strauss when he resigned as AEC head in June, his latest promotion comes as an unpleasant shock. There is no reason to honor the man whose treatment of Oppenheimer was not exactly gallant, and who has clouded the facts about atmospheric pollution and nuclear test explosions. In giving him this new position, President Eisenhower has done the country a considerable disservice, one which only the Senate can remedy...
Minus the Good Housekeeping seal of approval, wiry, grey-thatched Herb Mayes, 58, still had some of the seal's benefits. To get rid of him, Deems bought his contract, which ran for 2½ more years at a salary close...
...Russian advertising is expected to be "evocative, varied and beautiful," Sovetskaya Kultura added a final cautionary nudge before Soviet admen got too carried away by brain-storming in the Madison Avenue manner: "Capitalistic advertising is noisy and offensive. It stuns a customer. And its sole aim is to get rid of the goods by any method available." As sample of the kind of "persistent, shrill" U.S. slogans Russia does not want, the editor cited what he said was a U.S. slogan, although this will be news in Atlanta: "Coca-Cola is good for your body and your country...
...fourth amendment passed calls for automatic expulsion from the Council of members missing more than five meetings. David M. Perlmutter '59, Secretary of the Council, stressed that this provision is designed to compel attendance at meetings, not to get rid of Council undesirables...
...What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned and ungovernable past. It was a vote against twelve years of muddle, against 25 governments that had fallen one by one, against the "system" that De Gaulle once called the "trade union of place holders." It was, above all, a vote of confidence in Charles de Gaulle...