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...three-party government coalition or the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front, which came within a shade of winning the presidency in 1958. But both the government coalition and the Popular Action Front lost ground in last week's voting, and Frei thinks that they will continue to slip, paving his way to the presidency in 1964. "There are three things working in our favor," says Frei. "First, people are tired of the present political juxtaposition. Second, people don't want a rightist government. Third, people do not want a Communist government...
...face-losing gesture that neither the cardinal nor the Vatican is inclined to make. Church officials would like the Hungarians to offer Mindszenty a pardon and restore him briefly to his primatial see-but the Hungarians have evidently refused. Thus the Vatican will probably settle for having Mindszenty slip out and stay out. the formula used with Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi when he was released last February from Soviet custody...
...Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick to fly to Mexico, where the Cuban embassy issued a visa on a slip of paper. No telltale stamp marred the passports. Now the Mexicans stamp passports "Salio a Cuba" in bold letters. But, of course, passports can be conveniently "lost." destroying the evidence...
...tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar (Alexander Scourby) is trailing Mikhail for the money, and Tatiana proposes that they give the Red the slip by signing on as maid and butler to an oil-rich American family...
...letting 5 goals slip by him against the lowly Rangers, Canadiens' goalie Jacques Plante eliminated himself from the race for the Vezina Trophy, awarded to the netminder playing the most games for the team allowing the fewest goals. Instead, Glenn Hall of the Hawks won the honor for the first time in his career with an average of 2.54 goals scored against him per game...