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Whether in conscious or unconscious irony, Makarios had chosen to put up at Athens' fanciest hotel, now because of anti-British sentiment officially called the "Petit Palais," but still known to all Athenians by its original name-"Grande Bretagne." By the time he got there, some 50,000 people...
Everywhere the Queen and Prince Philip went, Parisian crowds gathered to gape and cheer. Outside the opera the welcoming hordes pressed so close that the mounted guards had to drive them back with drawn swords. At a huge reception in the Louvre many of the 2,000-odd distinguished guests...
Along the Rio Grande. At 17, Belloc rounded off his education at the College Stanislas in Paris, armed with a testimonial from the great Cardinal Newman himself. But by then he was in full rebellion against everything of a "stuffy" nature. Catholic or non-Catholic. He had begun to draw...
The good side of Belloc was his freshly un-English point of view and the strength of character that went with his narrowness. His marriage is an extraordinary example of his tenacity. Kept dangling by Elodie Hogan, a Catholic girl from California whom he had met in London, Belloc followed...
Item: children and young adults in Texas should already have had at least two (better, three) shots by this week, when polio begins its annual epidemic advance northward from the Rio Grande. But in El Paso, one of the cities where polio normally breaks out earliest, the program was off...