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...palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There the body was transferred from a horse-drawn gun carriage to a hearse for the 29-mile drive north along the Coruña highway to the Valley of the Fallen, the grim memorial to dead soldiers of the Civil War that was largely built by the labor of political prisoners. As the body was lowered into the grave, artillery batteries in Madrid thundered out a final 21-gun salute...
...than 500 million tons, and untold additional tonnage is believed to exist beneath unexplored jungle. Surinam provides about one-fifth of U.S. bauxite needs. Meanwhile, the new nation has other markets and friends. Venezuela will soon give oil to Surinam in exchange for bauxite, and Brazil may build a highway through the jungle to gain another port on the Atlantic...
Coach and Professor James Q. Wilson drove back to Cambridge Saturday evening, out of uniform and back into horn rims. But as he speeded, as highway night lights streaked across him, Wilson was not thinking about crime or bureaucracy or any mean intellectual pursuit...
...young girl (Cathryn Harrison), blonde, British, with the premature and slightly tentative poise of adolescence, drives down a highway through deserted countryside. In the distance, there is the sound of artillery...
...follow a more vigorous course would only risk re-igniting German inflation without doing much to boost demand in the depressed economies of its chief trading partners -a rather Ford-like position. Though the government has made some stabs at stimulation with investment grants, tax cuts and a highway spending program, German businessmen continue to hold down capital spending. Jittery German consumers are also saving an inordinate amount of their disposable income, so the economy remains sluggish...