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...baptismal ceremony in Madrid's Pardo Palace was over, and now came time to take the family photographs. Little María de Aránzazu Luisa la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last...
...these laws, I left South Africa two years ago. They did not affect me physically, for I am white, but the mental anguish was more than I could stand, since I spent much of my time in police stations trying to locate my African workers who had been ar rested for pass law offenses; the experience made me more frustrated and more aware of the treatment of blacks under apartheid...
Flying down to Washington, Blough ar rived right on time. Ordinarily a somber sort, he appeared downright jolly as he entered the White House. Awaiting him, puzzled and just a bit apprehensive, was President Kennedy. For months, Kennedy had been cultivating Blough, allowing him back-door entry to the White House. He had reason to think that his attention to Blough had paid off: less than two weeks before, U.S. Steel had reached a contract agreement with the United Steelworkers that Kennedy hailed as "non-inflationary" and as an example of "industrial statesmanship." So what did Blough want...
...never had such pressure on a bill," grumbled a veteran Democratic Congress man. "You've seen nothing," replied Ar kansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit tee. "I've had more pressure on this bill than you've had in your whole 20 years in Congress." The bill: President Kennedy's tax-revision plan. Source of the pressure: Kennedy...
Giesler's client Robert Mitchum, ar rested for smoking marijuana, also went to jail. Although Giesler was fairly sure that Mitchum had been framed, he counseled against a not-guilty plea in order to avoid the added publicity of a drawn-out jury trial. "My handling of the Mitchum and Wanger cases saved the motion-picture industry much grief," Giesler said much later in his as-told-to book with Saturday Evening Post Writer Pete Martin, "but they didn't appreciate it then. They don't appreciate it now. It has always been the industry...