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Plus & Minus. In Danville, Va., when the local radio, on a tip from a nameless schoolboy, broadcast the news that classes were called off, School Superintendent G. L. Johnson countered with a more reliable radio bulletin: Easter holidays would be shortened...
Minutes before the deadline-6 a.m., Easter Monday-Schwellenbach's last appeal was spurned. In Manhattan's dawn Miss Eileen McDonnell removed her headset, took the elevator down to the street and picked up a picket sign. Across the country, by time zones, galloped Mr. Mayer's horse. At 9 a.m., E.S.T., workers quit the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. offices in Los Angeles and for the first time in history a telephone walkout was nationwide...
...Floods and rainy weather were the top sorrows of the U.S. Easter weekend. But there was another: in areas where they appeared at all, jelly beans were selling for as high as $1 a pound...
...Easter Sunday, at the Government-sponsored unveiling of a plaque in Strasbourg Cathedral to the American dead in Alsace, De Gaulle appeared as hero. Thousands jammed the rainswept streets to cry "De Gaulle au pouvoir!" (De Gaulle to power!). In the presence of U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, De Gaulle said: "If a new tyranny should ever menace all or part of the world, we may be certain that the U.S. and France would be together to oppose...
...City Cathedral, a wizened little man worked a 500-lb. clapper back & forth until the great bell gave tongue. With all the majesty of her 155 years and the strength of her 27,000 pounds, sonorous Santa María de Guadalupe boomed out the first glad tidings of Easter...