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...their animals to church on the eve of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, famed for his love of animals. Ducks, chickens, cats and guinea pigs by the score turned up at Hereford's Holy Trinity Church. One youngster brought a tiddler (British for sunfish) in a jar. There was a lamb (owner's name: Mary) with its fleece (according to the Associated Press) only slightly soiled, and a pet mouse called Angela. Twenty horses, glossily groomed, but too big for the pews, waited outside...
...Senator was rushed in & out of the fair grounds before he had a chance to admire a steer or sample a jar of piccalilli. He did visit a giveaway radio program, where he dutifully kissed the Toni (wave) Twins ("Which Twin Has the Toni...
Disappearing Act. In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream...
...Diplomatic Echo. It takes Annedore Leber, a nervy, auburn-haired woman of 44, to jar the Soviet delegate from his posturing. She is a Social Democrat, an editor of the newspaper Telegraf; her husband gave his life in the underground conspiracy against the Nazis. Her blue eyes are hot with anger, and she is impatient with all this petty squabbling over package shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people...
...coalfields of the Pas-de-Calais, 30,000 Communist-led miners went on strike. That was enough to jar the delicate balance of French politics and set in motion a realignment of parties which may bring De Gaulle to power this spring...