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...banners picked up the story. Many were draped in black, to show that a member of the lodge had been killed in the pits since the last gala. Pictures and slogans told of hopes and fears. Many banners said "The Lord is my strength." One showed a miner leaving his wife and child; it was called "His Last Goodmorning...
Once a year British miners throng into the medieval town of Durham (pop. 16,000) in northeastern England for what they call the "Miners' Gala" (pronounced gayler). Last week nearly half a million squeezed through the narrow streets to the race course beneath the castle. They heard Labor Party leaders defiantly answer the Tory Party's bid for votes. The Durham gala, which began in 1861 with a protest march against dangerous conditions in the pits, is always a living symbol of the bitter class consciousness of British labor. This year-was no exception...
...denied the whole incident and saw to it that his daughter was crowned. "Mexicans," he explained, "do not know how to lose." But General Otero knew how a winner should act. To appease his daughter's competitors-all princesses of the festivals-he invited them to a gala luncheon. As Moy and her princesses plunged into a week of parties, even the traffic police forgot about the squabble...
...another scene, a group of Russian officers invite their French fellow prisoners to the gala opening of a package they have just received from the Czarina. When the package is found to contain books instead of vodka and caviar, the Russians simply set fire...
...investigating committee from the Organization of American States (see above) got a gala welcome in San José and was studying evidence that the attack had been staged with help from Nicaragua. In Managua, "Tacho" Somoza scoffed at the charges, awaited his chance to tell about the illegal activities of the Caribbean Legion sheltered in Costa Rica...