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...Prime Minister Winston Churchill dropped a libel suit against the London Daily Mirror, world's largest (circ. 4,500,000) daily newspaper. Churchill charged that the paper libeled him (TIME, Dec. 31) by implying, on the day of the last general election, that he was a warmonger. He withdrew his suit after the Mirror agreed to pay full court costs, print a front-page apology, and make a contribution to a charitable fund for elderly people that Churchill named. Said the Mirror's apology: "The statements and pictures referred to never intended to suggest that Mr. Churchill...
...permanent president began. One name proposed filled the room with cheers: it was little (104 Ibs.) Lila June Rainey of Lexington, N.C., who had already been elected president of the student body and had run away with a host of undergraduate honors. The only other girl nominated quickly withdrew ("I'm not going to run against June"). June was elected by acclamation, and the meeting was about to break up, when one of the faculty advisers said: "May I say something I've been waiting three years...
Slowly the 400 beleaguered police were reinforced, with tear gas and eventually with more than 1,600 policemen. Sending up white clouds of tear gas and firing over the rioters' heads, they gradually regained control. Finally, after 2½ hours of hand-to-hand combat, the Communists withdrew from the Plaza, leaving behind a litter of moaning and bleeding victims, torn flags, broken clubs and spears...
...count" climbed again to the old rate of 90 or 100 flies per square yard. Last week the foundation sadly announced that the fly had won over man, and then withdrew from the battlefield...
...Communist war in Malaya has been deeply embarrassing to the British. So has Chin Peng. They quietly withdrew his O.B.E. in 1948, but for years did not name him as the leader of the Communists. The advantage was Chin's: his terror gained from being secret and anonymous...