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...fewest? What Prime Minister served the most consecutive years?- Within 24 hours after the announcement that British elections would be held Oct. 8. copies of TIME'S "General-Election Argument Settler," a handy reference wheel with the answers to these and 250 other questions about 31 elections and 23 Prime Ministers since the parliamentary-reform bill of 1832, were distributed to government officials, party headquarters, university political clubs, educators, libraries, and other groups throughout the British Commonwealth. TIME previously distributed its "Argument Settler" for the 1956 U.S. elections and the 1957 Canadian elections, hopes the 1959 British wheel will...
Wouk feels, though, that Judaism is gravely threatened today in America, and he threat is not the traditional one of exclusion or persecution. He personifies Judaism as "Mr. Abramson" disappearing down a broad highway at the wheel of a high-powered station wagon, with the golf clubs piled in the back. Wouk puts it in terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going...
Baby Cars. A new line of ultra small cars will be introduced by British Motor Corp. in the U.S. within six months to a year. Engines will be mounted crosswise to save space, and the cars will have front-wheel drive, no rear axle. Dubbed the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, they will have 36-h.p., four-cylinder engines (top speed: 70 m.p.h.), run 45 miles on a gallon of gas. U.S. price: about...
Once upon a time, Gypsy Rose Lee was known for her ability to tease more than she stripped. More recently she has made her name and fortune as a teller of tales. Last week in London, she told of vacationing recently in Yugoslavia when, at the wheel of a rented Rolls-Royce, she collided with a motorcycle on a winding road overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly...
With the Explorer VI paddle-wheel satellite wheeling triumphantly overhead, U.S. rocket pads had their busiest week yet. Unhappily, results were mixed...