Word: spokesman
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Through its key legislative spokesman and its powerful daily Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram (circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes...
...Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...
...Khrushchev is not budging an inch," a British spokesman said, "and Macmillan is not budging an inch, either...
Before flying here for a visit, Macmillan told Khrushchev that any interference without some alternative arrangements "would lead to a dangerous situation," the spokesman said...
MOSCOW, Feb. 26--British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had lunch and a long talk with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on cold was issues today in an atmosphere that a British spokesman termed "fairly cool, calm and collected...