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...Next Best Thing." Next day the Nixons moved into royalty's orbit, and there, beside the Queen, began to make more British friends. In cold, misted St. Paul's, the Vice President watched the Queen dedicate the American Memorial Chapel, built out of British funds contributed by British families in the austerity-thin days after World War II. After that he lunched with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's suggestion ventured beyond protocol chitchat to talk foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill...
Edward Lewis Bartlett, 54, U.S. Senator. A onetime gold miner, Seattle-born "Bob"' Bartlett has been a territorial delegate to Congress for 14 years, made himself the Washington symbol of Alaskan statehood ambition, contributed much of the hard work that built the reality of the 49th star, had no trouble beating Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson...
...republics, inside the French community. Following Madagascar, which made its choice in October, the French Sudan and Senegal led last week's parade. Next came a proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in the land of the great Berber warriors who established the medieval Almoravide empire and built the fabled city of Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo, and big (496,000 sq. mi.), semi-arid Chad. Though France had expected its territories to act as they did, there seemed little doubt that the announcement from Accra had brought...
...single-rent system would help eliminate "social segregation" and a "terrible administrative snarl in the Houses," a high official in the Administration said yesterday. But such a plan, he added, would have to overcome "the wide spectrum of room desirability," a built-in feature of our housing...
College room rents will rise to a relatively high level if a single-rent system is adopted, Dean Watson said yesterday. A rent adjustment mechanism built into the plan would lessen the increase for scholarship students, however...