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...days after the ship weighed anchor and set its course for Viet Nam, trouble broke out in the mess hall. According to one version, a white mess cook refused to give a black two sandwiches instead of the usual one. The black swore and called him a honky, and the mess cook slugged him. In another version, a black stepped away from his mess tray without putting an OCCUPIED sign on it, and a white mess boy tried to take it away...
...mark the christening in the Pardo Palace chapel of infant Francisco Borbón Martínez-Bordíu, Alfonso and his wife Carmencita were designated Duke and Duchess of Cádiz. Franco's reasoning in restoring the monarchy was to provide Spaniards with a familiar anchor after he is gone. Cynics refer to the King-designate as "Juan Carlos the Brief." "Everywhere else," a Madrid university student complained, echoing an attitude common among young Spaniards, "they are shooting at kings or at least asking serious questions about what they do. Here we plan to restore...
...Anchor. Franco has notably failed to prepare his countrymen for the upheaval that could follow more than three decades of one-man rule. Six years ago, to be sure, he did draw up a "law of succession." Under that law and codicils added to it last July, el Caudillo will be succeeded by two men. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 34, grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last Spanish monarch, will be crowned King and chief of state. The head of government will be Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, 69, a Franco crony...
...though a bomb has hit it." The Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen tried desperately to get it shipshape. Cunard was forced to cough up $250,000 in emergency shore accommodations or air fares home for 1,550 stranded passengers. After the liner finally weighed anchor this week, a cleanup party of 40 workmen was still aboard, hammering their way across the Atlantic...
...network men, and to their viewers, the abbreviated evening of Richard Nixon's landslide resembled a first-round knockout in a scheduled ten-round match. After 9 p.m. the anchor men seemed stunned; there was little left to say. The projections were in, the landslide gaining momentum; all that remained were the interviews and the instant analysis. Frustrated, facing empty hours with few ingredients, ABC, NBC and CBS retired almost as if they were a bit ashamed of the size of the Nixon swamp...