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...crowd-jammed streets to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his fifth annual state of the union message. Since he is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself, it was also his last before the presidential elections next July, and the nationally televised speech turned out to be a long (4 hr. 25 min.) summing...
...send 4,000 extra troops into the area-just in case of an emergency. The Washington Senators postponed games scheduled for Aug. 27 and Aug. 28 so that baseball would not distract anyone from serious marching. In case of arrests, judges promised to be available on a 24-hr. basis...
...came quickly. It took McKinley only 1 hr. 17 min. to win 9-7, 6-1, 6-4. He then postponed his decision on a $50,000 pro offer until he completes his studies at San Antonio's Trinity University next January...
Even the Communists no longer try to hide what Labor Minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez last week aptly called "truly a great mess." In a 31-hr. TV interview, Martinez Sanchez outlined eight new labor categories in which Cuba's 2,400,000 workers soon are to be frozen in a drive to get more work for less pay. To qualify for the maximum pay in each category, workers will have to fulfill new work norms based on productivity. Those who fall short face even further reductions in wages that are already as much as 50% lower than the days...
...Donald Placard, 37, and Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...