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Rebuttal. In Lisbon Falls, Me., when the town's selectmen increased the tax rate on real estate, the citizens held a special meeting, voted to dismiss all five selectmen from their jobs...
...granting asylum to ex-President Batista in the quiet and isolated island of Madeira." said Portugal, "the government has been moved solely by its earnest desire to assist the parties more directly concerned to maintain peace in a vital area of the world." At the Lisbon airport, cops threw a protective ring around Batista's 15-man party, sped it off to a gold-and-blue suite at the just-opened Ritz Hotel. "I am out of politics," Batista told the few newsmen admitted to his rooms. "Cubans deserve their own decisions. They chose not to have...
...princess by her blood and by her beauty," cooed Lisbon's largest daily, O Século (circ. 110,000). "and she reflects tenderness and joy." Not since Britain's Queen Elizabeth graced the country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit...
...week's end, as Margaret winged her way back home, a Lisbon editor irately complained that the fair was nothing but ''a party given by the British for the British in a conquered land." The West Germans, who have no monarchy, hope to open a Lisbon fair of their own some time...
...police methods of Salazar's paternal dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices are stable because the government holds down wages, but one-third of Portugal's 9,000,000 people live in villages with neither paved roads nor electricity. Last week Lisbon was afire with reports that the old leader, hurt and bewildered by mounting criticism, was thinking of stepping down...