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...weeks the back-country jibaros (farmers) had planned for El Dia Dos (Jan. 2)-the great day when Puerto Rico would inaugurate its first elected governor. When the day came this week, 150,000 islanders turned out to cheer for Governor Luis Mufioz Marin in the biggest celebration of San Juan's 455-year history...
...ducks by rain and spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know...
...Strike Green Has Gone to War," "LS/MFT") dominated cigaret advertising, set style for radio commercials, added catchy phrases to everyday speech; whom many readers saw as the prototype for Evan Llewelyn Evans in Frederic Wakeman's best-selling satire, The Hucksters; of a heart attack; in Matapédia, Que. (see BUSINESS...
...Afghans of the North-West Frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind, "pure" in Tan from Urdu, with "stan" Baluchistan. means "Pak" also "Land of the means Pure." Last week the League convention defined it to embrace Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province (all in northwestern In dia), Assam and most of Bengal (in the north east). Jinnah has even advocated a thousand-mile corridor across Hindustan to connect the two parts...
...English Channel, Skagerrak, Kattegat). A huge revolving globe (Dr. Powell believes most people get wrong ideas of distance from looking at flat maps) shows the principal trade routes of the world. In the center of the auditorium, spread out on a huge table, are model ships in the standard dia grammatic layout of a grand fleet action...