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...City Councilman Alfred Vellucci vigorously denounced the petition last night, "Harvard get nothing from me. I counted the vote up there and they're not voting for me. I'll keep them jumping for that. I even sent Sputnik up to keep those boys at Harvard busy...
...Councilman Crane has picked up more second choice votes than any of the other candidates, with 138 when the counts closed at 7:30 last night...
...Spain, Valencia's City Councilman Vincente Giner Guillot had nursed a private ambition for more than 20 years: to be the one to discover the missing one of three El Grecos that, legend said, once belonged to Valencia's 350-year-old Real Colegio del Corpus Christi. Councilman Guillot's main problem was that he knew nothing about the missing El Greco, not even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years...
...Zahid Suhrawardy, was a Moslem high court judge, his mother a noted Moslem writer in a land where women usually live in obscurity. Moved up along the well-marked trail of well-off Indians to Oxford, won honors and a law degree. Politics-minded, he became a city councilman in Calcutta, a member for 24 years (1921-45) of the provincial legislative council of British-run Bengal; in 1946 he became provincial Chief Minister. Though a Moslem, he lined up with Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian leaders in the struggle for Indian independence. In 1946, when bitter Hindu-Moslem rivalry...
...fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious confusion. Heading back to the U.S. with a lightened cargo of good will, Hynes bleated his innocence (a spokesman's explanation: it was a visiting Boston councilman, not Hynes, who shined up to the Neo-Fascists). Said the mayor: "I wouldn't know a Neo-Fascist...