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...Madrid's broad Paseo de la Castellana, the heavy steel ball of a demolition crane slams relentlessly into the 19th century palace of the Marques de Selgas, making room for a high-rise apartment building. On the outskirts of the city, Dodge Darts are rolling out of a vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings...
...energetic and talented First Lady has opened a new door in the dream of total conservation," cheered the National Wildlife Federation and the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. And so they presented Lady Bird Johnson with the first annual Whooping Crane Award for "distinguished service to conservation." Other whoopers went to New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Idaho's Senator Frank Church, the Outdoor Writers Association and General Electric Co., but it was Lady Bird who soared in her acceptance speech. "The psalms and the poetry throughout our history recount the strength from the hills," she said. "Thank...
There was more clapping as Goldberg said that he had received "dilly-dallying" from Curry and then demanded a public apology from Crane...
...Crane, in turn, declared that he would make no apology, "I'll stack my record against Councillor Goldberg's anytime," he said. There was clapping...
...After Crane finished, Councillor Goldberg stood momentarily, and then in a loud, deeply angry voice he began shouting across the chamber at the ex-mayor...