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...given up hope that their King would pull them together. When George left the seclusion of his palace last week to attend a requiem service at the Metropolis Cathedral for a distant relative, Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf (recently killed in an airplane crash), the crowd lining University Boulevard neither cheered nor booed; they clapped politely. The people were still willing to withhold their judgment on their King-but not for much longer. Said one Athenian indifferently as the King's grey-green Rolls-Royce passed by: "Oh, I suppose he will go to England after the next...
Sirs: . . . "Bright and early one day last week a black Packard limousine with a U. S. crest on the door hummed through the maddening boulevard traffic of central Buenos Aires. As it passed, police snapped respectfully to attention" [TIME, Dec. 2]. . . . Now that's something I'd like to witness! I've often watched local policemen salute courteously, politely or sympathetically many cars official and otherwise, but I yet have to see a local cop or for that matter anyone in this country, in Latin American countries or any country in the world...
Bright & early one day last week a black Packard limousine with a U.S. crest on the door hummed through the maddening boulevard traffic of central Buenos Aires. As it passed, police snapped respectfully to attention. In the Plaza San Martin, where flowers were in bloom, the car came to a decorous halt before the rococo Argentine Foreign Office...
...door at 201 South Ashland Boulevard, in Chicago's highly unfashionable near-West Side, is open to anyone in trouble. Here come battered bums, anxious women, soul-sick businessmen and troubled ministers of the Gospel. They come to talk to Father David Edward Gibson. A white-haired old man, he sits at a cluttered desk, confident that God guides him in his work...
...Angeles, thousands lined Westwood Boulevard while batteries of searchlights and bursting skyrockets poked at a full moon. Into the fan-shaped outdoor theater of the University of California at Los Angeles came a parade of 60 floats, half a dozen of them on the theme of a U.C.L.A. bruin making hamburger out of a Stanford Indian...