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In all this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the...
Affair of Heart. More than the music, the house itself will be the major attraction. The façade remains practically the same. Inside, the building has been redecorated (in the old ivory, gold and red) and modernized: no gallery pillars to sit behind, earphones for back seats, air-circulation...
London's stockmarket soared to an all-time peak last week. For the first time in history, the industrial index of the Financial Times broke through 200, climbed a record 5.8 points to a new peak of 204.4 before it eased off. In one day, market-leading Imperial Chemical...
World War I: Drafted into the Austrian imperial army, he was a good soldier, won the regimental fencing championship. He was promoted to sergeant major, posted to the Russian front, badly wounded by a cavalryman's lance, captured and sent to Siberia. As a P.W., Tito learned Russian, married...
His aides spirited Togliatti off to an obscure villa owned by a party member, surrounded it with guards, summoned Trieste's best neurologist and telephoned Rome for the doctor who had operated on Togliatti's skull in 1950. "Venous congestion due to sunstroke," the doctors said in a...