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...Phyllis, choked in rhinestones and shod in gold boots and waders, has been chosen as Field and Stream's first centerfold to celebrate the magazine's 78th anniversary. Her measurements? "Approximately those of a striped bass...
Stunned, the regime dispatched extra police to the Basque provinces, where tensions were already at the flash point. In protest, 150,000 workers walked off their jobs. Schools shut down, stores closed, and young Basques battled with police in dozens of towns. In Madrid, Franco interrupted his 78th birthday celebration to call an emergency session of his Cabinet and declare a state of emergency in Guipuzcoa, the "most Basque" of Spain's four Basque provinces...
...convicted her of parricide in the bloody 1892 ax murders. "Fortunately there are some of us alive who will never accept her guilt," says Bill Rabe of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., spokesman for the 1,000-member Friends of Lizzie Borden. Each of Lizzie's friends commemorates the 78th anniversary of her parents' deaths in his own way. Rabe walks to the outskirts of Sault Sainte Marie carrying an ax, buries it in an unsuspecting oak tree, strolls back into town and gets drunk...
...counted for nought with the President of France. Last week, on the day after his 78th birthday, he brought off the greatest surprise in a long lifetime dedicated to the practice of the unexpected. In a stunning act of defiance against the world's financial experts and the seeming necessity of events, he refused to devalue the franc by one centime. Compared with De Gaulle's other famous nons-his withdrawal from NATO and his vetoes of British admission to the Common Market-the refusal to devalue was, perhaps, not of equal importance but certainly even more surprising...
...really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber ground to a halt several times. At one point the Senate went into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole gumbo for Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Johnson Robb and other noted local la dies. A minor piece of farm legislation was before the Senate, and it could not proceed without Agriculture Committee Chairman Ellender...