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...united in a plea for "maximum clemency." Even more distressing to the regime were leaked reports that high Spanish officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them all out on grounds that the protest was "a provocation." Replied the burly abbot: "So was the Burgos court-martial...
...mind. But of course all English-Irish love matches are star-crossed. Turns out that Rosy's publican father (Leo McKern) is the local informer for the British. Father surreptitiously blows the whistle on as grand a gang of Republican gunrunners as ever stepped out of the Abbey Theatre...
There is talk of doing a television special Christmas Day linking Washington and Westminster Abbey with President Nixon and Queen Elizabeth taking part in a religious program. Press Secretary for President Johnson, George Reedy, has written a book, The Twilight of the Presidency, suggesting that we may need a King to relieve the burdens of the Presidency...
...colleagues batted out a new party platform. At that time Heath, who is an excellent administrator, declared that the party organization should be geared up for a possible June election. It was. The Tories are nothing if not good managers and good disciplinarians. In every department of Abbey House, their central office in Westminster's Smith Square, methods and systems were tightened. Throughout the regions, new party managers were appointed, printing presses checked, lists of halls and booking arrangements updated, and local voluntary workers enlisted. Parliamentary candidates' lists were completed and biographies prepared for immediate distribution whenever an election would...
They are archrivals in Britain's business of turning stately homes into tourist traps. Yet the Duke of Bedford invited the Marauess of Bath to open his $2,500,000 "Wild Animal Kingdom" at Woburn Abbey. Only the animals refused to cooperate. As Bath drove around the preserve in his Bentley, a lion named Reggie leaped onto the hood. Three baby elephants had charged him as he cut the blue ribbon. When Bath held his ground, 450-lb. Tess trampled his foot. Lamely, his lordship predicted success for Bedford's menagerie...