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...Pointe aux Trembles on Montreal Island last week, Petrofina opened a new $30 million refinery, designed by Belgian Engineer Baron Prosper de Haulleville. The plant will give year-round service to the company's Eastern Canada outlets. Crude oil will be carried by tanker from Petrofina wells in Kuwait, fed into a pipeline at Portland, Me., then piped more than 200 miles to Montreal so that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast...
Next came the brothels, but with somewhat less success. As police entered the Dai La Thien and the Pare aux Buffles (Stockyard), a lower-class emporium with a mere 200 population, scores of girls scrambled to safety over back walls. In some other places, indignant Foreign Legion and Vietnamese troops stood off the cops with rifles, and opposition from the military generally was so strong that Diem later exempted field brothels from...
...Place aux Dames. In Indianapolis, announcing a beauty contest to choose an Indiana "Air Princess," the U.S. Air Force informed candidates that "All entries become the property of the judges...
...live, and to consult University officials about their study programs." Frankly, the question is not one of maturity. If you had fifty-six hours in your day, you might possibly locate an official of the University (We doubt it: we know a mature Harvard student who passed an hour aux halles looking for a classroom at 34. Quai du Louvre); but gracious are the French are, it would be impossible that individual consultation be granted each of the thousands of foreign students inundation Paris annually. Courses that the unguided, unsuspecting American students choose are rarely suitable, because the French university...
When 19-year-old Francis Trudeau fell ill in New York with tuberculosis, the disease was still a deadly mystery, romanticized in such plays as La Dame aux Cornelias, but dreaded by its victims and misunderstood by helpless doctors. That was in 1865, and since there were no nurses trained to care for TB victims, Francis Trudeau's 16-year-old younger brother Edward took over the task of sitting with him in a stuffy, tightly sealed room and administering useless cough medicines for four months until Francis died...