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...Cohen of the Tehiya Party, a coalition member, said the next logical step was to put Abraham Lincoln's picture on the shekel. Other members described the "dollarization" plan as a blow to Israel's sovereignty that would make the country in effect the U.S.'s 51st state. Within hours, Aridor offered his resignation...
Focus of U.S. theatrical attention last week was a great grey pylon which strikes the earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets-the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week a monster variety bill twice daily...
...Tripoli gathering would confirm his installation as O.A.U. chairman for one year. But Gaddafi alienated a number of moderate African states by helping to engineer the recognition of the Polisario guerrilla movement, which opposes Morocco's 1976 annexation of the Western Sahara, as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. As a result, only 21 heads of state showed up, and Gaddafi did not get the quorum of 34 necessary to hold a summit. Last week he tried and failed again to be host at the meeting...
...however, was the deepest split in O.A.U. history, which was also, at least in part, because of Gaddafi. Last February, he and 25 other leaders of radical and left-leaning African states engineered the recognition of the self-styled Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (S.A.D.R.) as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. That is the name used by the Polisario guerrillas in the Western Sahara...
Keliey, 74, who won in 1935 and 1945, plans to run again Monday. It will be his 51st Boston Marathon, though he is half inclined not to count the three he didn't finish (1928, 1932 and 1956). "I meet people every day now," Keliey says, "with gray heads, bald heads, who tell me how their fathers always took them to Fenway on Patriots Day morning to see the Red Sox and then on to the race to cheer us in. Boston is Boston. It's tradition. But I'm as confused...