L ..J d I in Ever , V 0 .. .. . T ~ e ri e ini t 0 nada toni t? till J 0 n ie n a · er. But or } ow lon · ? It's uite a story. Die en a er' co serv a tive rt .. - lost the e ection. But t e oint i t 1 at no ody won a clear majority. T e Liberal r' rty i il more seats than any of t 1 e ot , ers - one undred an tventy-eigbt, but that 1 ave Li eral ea er ~ester earso - five s . ort of an absolute majority. Five le s than enou h to force Diefenbaker's re i 6 ation. In A ~erica, we are used to a Presi ent reachin the White Bouse even it out a complete victory - a majority. out under t e Britis a ljamentar system this results in an unstable · overnment t at is a coalition government - wit t on ot er parties for su ort. ' rime inister de p ending Anyway, Jal n ie en aAer, i e so eci "' es, can now try to f orm a coalitio inst a o re i nin. And t e ind~cations are that he'll o just t Rt. Seldom h as T h e United ~tates been so concerned about a Canadian election. Durin t e campaign the P~ime Minister k ept callin g for f ewer ties between Ottawa and Washin g ton. While Lester P earson, leader of the opposition kept calling for closer co-operation between the two good neighbors. So - bow does Canada look tonight, fro ■ la1hington? The White Bouae is maintaining a strict •no coament• attitude. But on Capi&ol Bill there'• little attempt to hide - both satisfaction and concern. Satt1faction, because Lester Pearson made such a stroq •bowing with bia pro-American platfora. Concern, because Canada may be ebtering a period of political indecision with a shaky coalition government • . . . ---- In bestowing honorary American citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill today - President Kennedy rose . to the occasion with a touch o f Churc . illian eloquence. Addressing the audience at the White Bouse, he said - •sir Winston is the most honored and honorable man to walk the sta g e of human history in the time in wbicb we live•. What could be more Churchillian thaa that? Maybe the following from Churchill's responae to tbe A ■erican tribute. •In this century of stor■ and tragedy, I contemplate with high satisfaction - the conatant factor of the interwoven and upward progreaa of our peoples•. At any rate it has h'Q! been finalized. · , ----- - - Hon o rary Citizenship for Winston Chu~cbill. A unique honor for one of the true g iants of our er-a. Western Observers are more certain than ever that the crisis in Laos reflects the crisis in the communist block. And they are almost unanimous that Red China is now the commanding Red power in Southeast Asia. Mao Tse-tung, seizing control from Khrushchev. Pushing Laos into a civil war - that Khrushchev doean•t want. That was Dean Rusk's theme today - when he spoke before the Seato conference in Paris. The Aaerican Seo~etary of State, warnin g bis colleague• that they aay have to take ■ ore en•r~etic aeasur•• to aave Lao•. The nine Americans who returned from Cuba today took the long way home. They left Miami on January twentieth - for skin diving in the Bahamas, they said. But before they started diving tbeir craft sprang a leak, and went down. For five days and night• they floated in a lifeboat. When they did reach shore, they were on Castro's Cuba, where they soon found themselves hustled off - to a Havana jail. Castro telling the world that he had caught nine yankee api••· Then the man of the hour arrived. Be seems to be the man of the hour for Americana in comauniat Cuba, Attorney Jaaes Danavan, who convinced the bearded dictator of the innocence of the captives. So, at last the nine skin divers are back in Florida, after an adventure they had not anticipated. Meanwhile, Castro's executioner may be headed in the opposite direction. Herman arks of ilwaukee who once commanded rifle squads of the Caatro revolution, who once boasted of killin two hundred of the prisoners convicted by Castro's star chamber tribuna But Berman Marks no longer boasts about hia Cuban career. Be says be prefers America - Milwaukee. To which a Federal Judge replies - that Marks broke the law by serving in the armed forces of another country, hence should be deported. So, tonight, Castro'• executioner is a aan without a country. Quite a Beraan Marks of Milwaukee, who rode high a ■ the batcberaan of the red dictator of the Caribbean. B NK J,~~--q_~ T h e two men who robbed the b nk o f M ri ' nn , Florid a - ~ pros? They pulled the Job - as if they were acting out script. Construction helmets , and scarves across their faces - for disguise. Hickle-plated pistols - in their hands. ) a. Timing . ex a ctly right - half-an-hour after the bank opened. " so : nd they cut the phone wire~expertly - that no one saw them do it The bandits, making the clerks lie down on the floor - and the bank Vice President fill the1r1'undry sacks with money. Getaway car J S1mple.-They took the keys and itle car belonging ' to one of the clerks. ' Th;"\iaul~e bank in Marianna , Florida - one-hundred- thousand bucks. In t he mid d le East, t e ord " Wa di• means a dry uich or valley, and is f ound all over the map - as in t h e case o f ~ adi Alyutum near Petra in Jordan. Which information is a l ead into toni g ht's story from Wadi Alyutua. A flash flood ■ weeping down, inundatin a campsite of tourist and g uide1. The toll - twenty-five drowned. The age old menace of the Yiddle East - the Wadi and the flash flood. Ive been in that wadi - long ago when I was with Lawrence in Arabia. But then it was hot, desolate, eoae de1ert flowers, but no flood. In MinidoKa, Idaho, two 6 ol d miners have retired from mining. Darrell Hamilton and Floyd Gambrel, swqarin~ off - after an experience in a ■ ine shaft. They were down five hundred feet yesterday when the winch lipped. The heavy mine bucket full of eq uipaent - plummeting down the shaft until it got wedged. Blocking the way up. There they were - five hundred feet undergroun no food or water, only a flashlight. Bitterly cold. And - they didn't know how long they'd have to wait for help~ It cue in twelve hours. That long, although their partner on the surface h ad tiven the alarm. The Idaho gold miners finally hauled to t h e surface in a Bosun's chair. Eaer ing from the mine - with eyea blinking and teeth c h attering, sayin there must be an easier way to find g old. If you hap p en to be a •marr y in Sam• - you'll f ind it tough to marry anybody in levada from now on. Nevada's G overnor Sawyer si g ned a bill today - aimed directly at you. It all be an with tbe develo p ment of a •weddin 6 mi11• in the sa geb rush state. Clergymen, arriving in Beno and Las Vegas and Carson City - for the sole purpose of tying the knot, collecting the fee, then disappearing - back to their home states. Thef were called •Marrying Sams•, Dick. ia out to put the quietus on them. Governor Sawyer When Jacqueline K ennedy 1 oes to church on Easter Sunday, will she v. e r a at or a scarf? Is it important? America. It is to the millinery institute of Since the First Lady influences the women of America - the milliner's hope that Jacquie will appear in a real Easter bonnet, to ive fashion a boost, start a boom in bonnets. When one milliner inquired at the White Bouse back came the answer that so far there is no answer. As Mrs. Kennedy's secretary put it - •It's a woman'• privile e to change her mind, even the First Lady, eY,en about an Easter bonnet.•