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After his speech, Adenauer took time to inspect the special offices in Bonn's Parliament Building that are being made ready for him to occupy after his oft-postponed but now firmly promised retirement as Chancellor this fall. When he steps down, Adenauer is supposed to confine himself to being a parliamentary Deputy, national chairman of his Christian Democratic Union-and the oldest surviving member of Arminia...
...barge 2½ miles out in the Pacific, off San Diego, at the site of a sewer-construction project. Strapped to a pontoon was an injured workman, his leg broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from the wreckage. But the odds were...
...June 19, the members of the Sacred College of Cardinals, each to be accompanied by one aide, will assemble in the Sistine Chapel. Vatican officials will ritually inspect the chapel and adjoining apartments for unauthorized persons, and then lock the prelates in. They will not reappear until two-thirds of the cardinals have selected someone to be the next Bishop of Rome, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church and Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth...
Most of Manhattan is edging into summer this week, but along Seventh Avenue it is already autumn. Buyers from all over the U.S. are making their seasonal march into garment-district showrooms to rummage through, inspect and buy fall fashions. In a $13 billion industry that survives and thrives on change, the biggest change of all is in the corporate shape of the industry itself. Women's wear, a business of some 4,700 firms in which the mean has always been two or three partners with a $25,000 bankroll, is busy styling a whole new rackful...
After the speeches, the guests were invited to tour the building and inspect student work from several design and visual studies courses...