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Fire department officials have turned in evidence to the State Fire Marshal, who is investigating the blaze. According to Massachusetts law, any fire of a suspicious nature, of undetermined origin, or involving a possible law intraction is subject to state investigation. A report is due later in the week...
...journey began in the hot desert country around Hyderabad. Last week it ended, 1,500 miles distant in the cold, bleak hills near the Khyber Pass. Traveling in a sleek, air-conditioned train named Pak Jamhuriat (Pakistan Democracy), Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, barnstormed the land, urging citizens to go to the polls in support of his new conception called "basic democracies...
Reaction to this latest Channel venture was mixed. "A wildcat scheme," cried Viscount Montgomery. Ignoring supersonic bombers and ICBMs, Britain's angry old field marshal added darkly that the tunnel would end "the inviolability of our island against the footsteps of an invader." To placate such critics, tunnel planners have included a dip at either end which could be flooded quickly to thwart invaders, pumped out later. The only cogent argument against construction of a tunnel, as the Times once commented, is that it would end the debate as to whether it ever was a good plan, "thus depriving...
Tournament of Roses Parade (NBC, ABC, 11:30 a.m.-l:45 p.m.). The 71st annual pre-Bowl festivities, with Richard Nixon as grand marshal. In color...
...along that "incitement among nonwhites would give rise to disorder." And just to make sure that the outside world would not be so misguided in the future, a group of South Africa's richest men, headed by Sir Francis de Guingand, onetime Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, and including Harry Oppenheimer, head of the De Beers diamond trust, announced that they were setting up a foundation devoted to promoting "international understanding of South Africa's way of life, achievements and aspirations...