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During the fortnight's balloting, other city business was at a standstill. For Cambridge's traditionally dilatory Council, however, the election was consummated in a remarkably short time. Two years ago, it took 167 ballots before another political deal, between CCA-endorsed councillors and John J. Foley, put the latter into office. Even this did not constitute the highpoint of Council deadlock: in 1948, the Council dallied into mid-April before Michael J. Neville emerged as mayor From the smoke-filled Council chamber. During those four months, no other City business was considered...
...those days sister Grace was showing a distinct preference for such indoor sports as Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. Last fortnight another young foreigner came to call on Grace at the Kelly mansion in Philadelphia. "I was under the impression he was going to stay just a couple of hours," said Grace's father, Millionaire John B. ("Jack") Kelly. "But he stayed and stayed and stayed." In the end the visitor formally asked Jack for his daughter's hand in marriage. Thus, three weeks after his arrival in the U.S., Prince Rainier...
Peron's direction of the plotters was understandably hard for the government to prove, but some evidence existed. In Uruguay a fortnight ago, his private secretary, Luis Radeglia, who had flown in from Panama, was detained and found to have tape recordings of Peron speeches, presumably for broadcasts to the homeland. In Buenos Aires Peronistas were peddling phonograph records labeled as tangos but really pep talks by Peron...
...another wedding luncheon, the two were at it again, but this time the festivities were for them. Beaming over the victuals were Army Corporal Thomas Hulen Truitt, 20, grandson of Kentucky's Barkley, and his dark-eyed bride, Jane Everett Hadley, 21, daughter of Jane Barkley. After a fortnight's honeymoon, the newlyweds will hop to West Germany, where Corporal Truitt's service hitch will end in June. In the genealogical tangle created by the new family tie, Tom Truitt clearly got the happiest break: his severe mother-in-law is also his lovable step-grandma...
...together on Paraguayan postage stamps. But of late Argentina's revolutionary government has been pressing for de-Peronization in Paraguay as well as at home. Argentine exports to Paraguay of vitally needed flour and other foods began to fall off significantly. A fortnight ago. Stroessner sent a top general to hold private talks with Argentina's new President Pedro Aramburu. Upon the general's return, Stroessner ran a quiet housecleaning and offered Mendez and his Peronista cohorts honorable ambassadorships in distant countries...