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...brief foray into Quebec, Tory Chieftain Diefenbaker could play no such homey role. Reading speeches in schoolboy French, Diefenbaker was unable to shake Quebec's traditional suspicion of the Conservatives, whose strength is based in the English culture of neighboring Ontario. But across the provinces, Diefenbaker has pumped new spirit into a party that last won a Canadian federal election in 1930. Elected Tory leader only 5½ months ago, Diefenbaker has kept himself on a handshaking, speechmaking grind from morning until well after midnight through six weeks of the campaign...
...case of Maura Lyons, 16, the Roman Catholic girl who disappeared from her Belfast home after becoming a Presbyterian (TIME, March 18), was closed by a court order that she be returned to her Catholic parents-but on the condition that they do nothing to shake her new Protestant faith. After her conversion last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home...
That Tired Feeling. The whole town (pop. 2,500) was full of cases of a mysterious, ill-defined but often disabling illness. Typical was the case of a beauty-shop operator, who noticed in May of last year that she just could not shake off that tired feeling, had increasingly severe and frequent headaches and pain in the neck...
...Soviet Union would seriously consider accepting the proposal. The resentment of Russia's satellite empire is kept in check by the memory of Hungary, and Russia might welcome the opportunity to neutralize a potentially explosive and embarrassing area. If she withdraws from East Germany, however, that nation would probably shake off its present dictator and install a coalition cabinet like Imre Nagy's ill-fated regime. Russia's acceptance is thus doubtful...
...Tokyo airport Menzies shook hands with top-hatted Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, drove off in a gold-decorated black coach drawn by black horses, to lunch with the Emperor and Empress. (The first Australian parliamentarian to shake hands with Hirohito shortly after the war had been condemned in Australia for "a dastardly act.") Glowed the Japan Times: "Mister Menzies has proved himself a man of broad vision and deep understanding." But the Japanese soon found that mincing language is no part of Pig Iron Bob's equipment. Said Menzies: "I've come up here without any reservations...