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...covered eight acres of land, contained 1,000 rooms, was the largest single structure built in England since the days of the Romans. The cardinal employed 2,500 artisans and laborers, filled the place with ornaments and vessels of gold and silver, covered the beds and furnishings with the costliest silks. He had, in fact, a Sybarite's passion for finery, and he let it be known that he was not averse to accepting "official" gifts. At one point, when the Venetian government was pressing for some trade concessions, its ambassador in London suggested that his superiors dispatch...
Immediate cause of the trouble was Spain's longest, biggest and costliest labor dispute since the Civil War. The fight began last month in the coal fields of the northern province of Asturias, where miners, alarmed at skyrocketing prices, struck for a $1.50 wage boost, to bring their pay to $2.50 a day. Though strikes are illegal, the miners stubbornly stuck to their walkout; they had no strike funds, no organization, ran the risk of losing all their social security and pension benefits from the government's puppet labor union. But their tenacity won them sympathizers; from...
Died. Thomas Bull, 96, courtly, wing-collared interior decorator, a Norwegian-born tastemaker whose elegant curlicues adorned New York's costliest mansions (among his clients: the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Woolworths) as well as Schrafft's restaurants, who outlived both his patrons and his style, never losing his firm distaste for wall-to-wall carpeting; in Manhattan...
...palatial repair bill was only the costliest irritation in one of Britain's rare quarrels between the monarchy and the masses. Flying off on a three weeks' vacation in Antigua, the princess and her husband traveled by commercial airliner-but had the entire first-class section barred to other passengers. Commented Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express: "Another little touch of apartheid to ensure that the democratic idea is not carried too far." Britons were also irked by reports that a new hotel abuilding near Kensington Palace has been forced to reduce its height by several floors...
...slipped in through a sterile lock. Already inside are sterile eye droppers with rubber nipples. Every hour, 24 hours a day, the young animals must be fed by hand, always by the tedious process of working through a rubber gauntlet. Monkeys, with the longest "nursing" time, are the costliest animals to raise. Pigs are better: born with their eyes open, they are not a feeding problem, and when only six weeks old they are the right size for experimental surgery which may later be adapted to man. Small animals such as rats, mice and guinea pigs will breed...