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...Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped: "I won't say anything about the royal family...
...throng of 100,000 came to the port of La Guaira as 47 naval ships and 80 fighting planes passed in review. On following days 8,000 public employees, 20,000 labor-union delegates and 50,000 students dutifully paraded. To wind up a friendly week, the dictators added to each other's formidable collection of medals...
Great Highway. More significantly for Venezuela's economy, Pérez Jiménez snipped a silk ribbon to open the spectacular new motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms...
...morning last week 126 bearded, bedraggled men in faded overalls and cheap suits crowded round the door of La Guaira's Interior Ministry. The night before, just 42 days after leaving Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, they had disembarked from the tiny, 75-year-old schooner New Adam to the Venezuelan shore and a new life in the new world...
...International Refugee Organization has ferried in 14,000 displaced persons. Next week five ships are expected to dock at La Guaira with 1,800 more. Special Venezuelan immigration offices abroad have helped other thousands to cross from Spain, France and Italy...