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While a Welsh men's choir sang Rock of Ages and a cheering crowd waved Union Jacks, the civil governor of the province of Cadiz, Mariano Baquedano, last week placed a key in the brass lock of the gate that for 16 years had separated Spain from the British crown colony of Gibraltar. The lock would not budge. Embarrassed, Baquedano handed the key to a Spanish policeman, who also wrestled nervously with the reluctant mechanism. At one minute past the appointed hour of midnight, the lock finally gave way, and the large green gate swung open...
...moment the two Soviet officials arrived at their offices at the United Nations Secretariat building in New York City, they knew something was very, very wrong. The inner office was closed off. The lock on the door had been changed, and a printed notice said that the office had been sealed by U.N. security forces. The date was Friday, April...
Aside from providing lock and store bicycles, boy say the administration continues to look into ways of facilitating bicycle...
...colleges were unlikely to come up with any quick solutions, there were signs last week that Bennett himself might soon show how a student in the humanities can find a good job after graduation. In the wake of his strong report, some Washington insiders claim that Bennett has a lock on the position of Secretary of Education, left open by the announced resignation of T.H. Bell. Bennett insists that there is "no connection" between the study and the secretaryship, adding, "It would break my heart if it were read that way." On the other hand no one, including Humanist Bennett...
...blow a bugle whenever the Peckinpaugh passed, or the one about the elderly woman who still stands at her kitchen window and waves. His first mate, Stewart Gunnlaugsson, chimes in with stories of fogs that can blot out the canal's marker buoys and make navigation impossible and lock keepers who bring the Peckinpaugh's crew up to date on the news as they pass through. "Canal people are like a family," he says as the ship sails across 21-mile-long Oneida Lake and swings north into the Oswego River. "We really get to know each other...