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Francisco Franco has long sworn that he would remain in power "as long as God grants me life and a clear mind." Last week the wizened 80-year-old Caudillo stood erect for two hours while taking the salute at a Madrid parade marking the 34th anniversary of his Civil War victory. He then went off on one of his routine fishing trips and even attended a bullfight. But late in the week, after that impressive display of either vigor or iron will, Franco announced that he was stepping down as President and head of government. His successor: crusty, authoritarian...
John Allis, a three-time Olympic racer, edged from a pack of four with a very fast final spring to win the 34th Harvard-Wellesley bicycle race yesterday...
Paul Finnegan and Peter Dillon wound up 34th and 40th for the Crimson...
...pantsuit, rose to protest: "I find it an extreme insult to suggest that women delegates should be attending style shows while the men attend to the business of the convention," prompting the remark: "My God, it sounded like she was saying, They are slaughtering Christians down on 34th Street.'" Militants took action against women they considered to be traitors to their sex. Those who stayed at the Playboy Plaza proselytized the bewildered Bunnies as earnestly as the Jesus freaks buttonholed passers-by on the streets. When a prostitute scrounged a pass and started to solicit on the convention floor...
Political Conspiracy. There the matter would have ended, except that the proprietor of Ramona Foods happens to be Mrs. Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-American businesswoman whom Richard Nixon had just nominated to be the 34th Treasurer of the U.S. George K. Rosenberg, director of the Immigration Service's Los Angeles office and the man who called the raid, said he did not know Mrs. Banuelos' identity until after the raid was over. In any case, noted Rosenberg, he had sent a routine letter to Ramona Foods in August 1969, warning the company to stop employing illegal aliens...