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...bombing with a memorial Mass, a photo exhibition and a gathering of historians. Madrid has stalled giving its approval to the ceremonies, in part because the Guernica controversy remains alive. Basques know that the Franco regime permitted a revisionist version of Civil War history: aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, a Luftwaffe contingent supporting the Nationalists, had carried out the raid, but the Nationalist high command was not involved...
...uses for beepers are legion. Children in affluent La Jolla, Calif., get beeped home to dinner. Guests at Manhattan's Statler Hilton who expect important calls can rent beepers for $5 a day, then go sightseeing. By June, a caller will be able to beep from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles via satellite. A Boston narcotics peddler used top-line $300 models to keep track of his 13 pushers-until he went to jail and the pushers made off with the pagers. The users most thoroughly hooked on pocket page calls may be ... well, hookers. The gadgets...
McCall as governor was a Jerry Brown figure: unpredictable, iconoclastic, controversial. Take the time a convention of American Legion stalwarts was coming to Portland, led by John Mitchell, and a group of counter culture organizers had called a People's Army Jamboree in reaction, inviting several thousand anti-legionaires to attend. A confrontation between the two groups seemed inevitable, so, in gubernatorial character, McCall called out the national guard and ordered a helicopter to be sent to the city for possible crowd dispersal. But unlike your average chief exec, McCall specified that the troops were not to carry guns...
...whole world only some 3,000 rich and fashionable women who wear clothes hand-made by the 23 haute couture houses of Paris. To evoke their celebrated sighs, provoke the fashion press and attract the foreign manufacturers and department-store buyers in search of rip-off grail, a legion of designers, buyers, cutters, seamstresses, midinettes, mannequins and pressers labor mightily to produce the two big shows, for summer and winter...
...epidemic disease, the CDC's dedicated scientists had to take much of the blame, justly or not, for the collapse of the nationwide swine flu program. Equally embarrassing, they were unable to identify the mysterious fever that killed 29 people and hospitalized scores of others after an American Legion convention in Philadelphia last summer...