Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wayne Hays was unavoidably detained, but nearly a score of other Congressmen made the trip to London, and so, after suitable ceremonies, Magna Carta reached America's shores last week. Actually, the huge Capitol Hill contingent returned to Washington with a gold facsimile ten days before the document itself was flown over...
...original Magna Carta has dis appeared, but the document that will be displayed in the Capitol Rotunda for the next year is the first of four copies signed by a reluctant King John at Runnymede in 1215, granting personal and political freedoms to England's rebellious barons. The charter is regarded as the foundation stone for the common...
Presenting the precious document to the U.S., Britain's Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn Jones, told an audience that jammed the Rotunda: "Peoples not familiar with our ways have thought it a trifle paradoxical for the British to be joining in the celebration of the Bicentenary of what was, after all, the loss of the American colonies. They overlook our traditions of compromise. We in fact now regard the events of two centuries ago as a victory for the English-speaking world...
...than an hour. Even after the case made headlines, no one bothered to visit the apartment for fingerprints. When Gutierrez Ruiz's wife tried to file a kidnaping complaint with the police, she was not allowed to file for anything more serious than the loss of her identity document, which the kidnapers had stolen...
...Agent in Place, Maclnnes (4) 5-The R Document, Wallace (9) 6-The Gemini Contenders...