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...islands in the Southwestern Pacific, most of them less than a square mile in size, running roughly north and south. They cover 115,600 square miles, about the area of Italy. The principal islands: Luzon (40,420 square miles) and Mindanao (36,537 square miles). Biggest city: Manila...
...will then head for training at Garnisch-Partenkirchen in Germany in preparation for the Olympics. Then, after the Olympics, Button will start back to Cambridge by way of Vienna, Tel Aviv, Bombay, Calcutta, Manila, Tokyo, Honolulu, and Colorado Springs...
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From the Lord Chancellor's office "in Whitehall last week, stout manila envelopes marked O.H.M.S. ("On His Majesty's Service") were expressed to every mayor, provost and sheriff in Britain and Northern Ireland. Each contained a copy of a royal proclamation: "Being desirous and resolved as soon as may be to meet Our people, [We] do hereby make known to all our loving subjects Our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament . . ." At St. Paul's Cathedral Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill and Clement Davies, leader of the dwindling Liberal Party, knelt at pre-election prayers...
...When Ogden reported his findings, police and customs men moved fast. At Hong Kong, customs officers saw a Chinese sneak aboard a plane in the airport hangar and emerge carrying twelve fat envelopes. They grabbed him and recovered $142,000. At Philippine airfields, $171,000 more was confiscated. In Manila, an informer led Ogden to a man who offered to sell him 500 counterfeit money-order blanks at 25 pesos ($12.50) each, and obligingly showed him the printing plant where they were being turned out. Police nabbed the forgers...