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...Erect their villas at the right places...
...they have anything left to show. (The ideal mouse, according to Mouse Club guidelines, must be "long and slim in body, with a long, clean head, neither square nor too pointed at the nose. The eyes should be large, bold and prominent; the ears large, free from creases, carried erect and set wide apart.") The strategy-quiet diplomacy, rather than noisy, ratlike demonstrations-paid off. The health department at least agreed to investigate the club's case against a proposed law that would call for a maximum fine of $705 against anyone harboring a mouse...
Said the elated Bean: "That's what we've been hoping you would say." In fact, the astronauts got ready to take their repeatedly postponed space walk early this week. That will enable them to erect a second sunshade over the area stripped bare when a micrometeorite shield ripped off during Skylab's launch in May. The astronauts will also take the opportunity to reload their solar-telescope array with fresh film. Underscoring the renewed optimism at Houston that Skylab would survive this latest crisis, Kraft made arrangements to bring Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to Houston...
Francisco Franco has long sworn that he would remain in power "as long as God grants me life and a clear mind." Last week the wizened 80-year-old Caudillo stood erect for two hours while taking the salute at a Madrid parade marking the 34th anniversary of his Civil War victory. He then went off on one of his routine fishing trips and even attended a bullfight. But late in the week, after that impressive display of either vigor or iron will, Franco announced that he was stepping down as President and head of government. His successor: crusty, authoritarian...
Rosa Parks, L.H.D., the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and who now works for a Michigan Congressman. Truly, when you sat down in a Montgomery, Ala., bus, all men and women were freed to stand more humanly erect. Harrison E. Salisbury, Litt.D., New York Times editor and correspondent...