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...Climbing Blocks. The scene was a western suburb of Algiers called Bab-el-Oued (pronounced Bablouette by its 50,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Spanish, Italian and Jewish origin), a district of dark, dingy bars and cafes interspersed with modern shops, movie theaters and banks. Huge apartment blocks climb the hills above the shoe and cigarette factories that employ many Moslem workers. Long a hotbed of pied-noir extremism, Bab-el-Oued produces leaders like ex-Cab Driver Jesus Giner, who swaggers about the Cafe des Trois Horloges with a posse of armed hoodlums and boasts, "Here, I make...
...meatless" days a week, imposed during the declining days of the Perón era, were reimposed-though "meat" in this case meant beef, and Argentines were free to put away as much lamb and mutton as they could hold. But prices did climb (steak went from 8? to 19? per lb., bread from 2? to 4? per lb.), and the memory of high living in the days of Per&243;n died hard. Frondizi next outraged the nationalists by allowing foreign private companies to develop Argentine petroleum reserves.. He launched campaigns to denationalize steel and to increase electric...
...lightweights, then, have a hard uphill road to climb, but anything can happen. "Luck plays a very important part," Coolidge emphasizes. He had to "start from scratch" in his undefeated year in 1959, and the three returning lettermen he did have rowed on the JV's in the beginning. Maybe the same thing will happen again...
...Mountaineering Club will present a public lecture tonight on tales of mountain climbing in the Canadian Yukon. The lecture will be in the Map Room of the Faculty Club at 8 p.m., immediately after the winter dinner. The slide-talk will tell of the intrepid third ascent of the East Ridge of Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. Everyone interested in learning the details of this unusually difficult climb is urged to attend...
Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...