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...People's Republic of China clearly won a battle of images in its first exchange of permanent representatives with the U.S. Installed in the Peking zoo were Milton and Matilda, two woebegone musk oxen that arrived with scraggly coats and postnasal drip brought on by the climate change and general cultural shock. Last week, the Chinese part of the exchange, the giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (pronounced Shing-Shing), took up residence at the National Zoological Park in Washington, where they were welcomed by Pat Nixon. Still too young to mate, they will live in separate...
...findings of Drs. Macalpine and Hunter require a modification of this view to take his physical illness into account. The new evidence may also explain the mysterious deaths of several of his ancestors and collateral relatives, including James I's son Henry and George's sister Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway. Both were rumored to have been poisoned by close relatives. Both actually may have died of the royal malady...
...dame of busking's elder set: a round, waddling littie woman of 54 known only as Meg, who sang Danny Boy in a round, waddling contralto. Said she: "I only sing classical." The Spoonies, two stubble-chinned men in their 60s named Scottie and Georgie, clattered through Waltzing Matilda, one whacking a banjo, the other clicking two bent dessert spoons like castanets. The evening was a smash success. "After all," says Partridge, "if they weren't any good, they wouldn't be buskers. Bad buskers starve...
...Iowa City, Iowa, last week, a seven-man ecclesiastical court of clergy and laymen formally convicted Dr. Joseph E. Baker and his wife Matilda of disrupting the "peace and unity" of the First Presbyterian Church. The couple were indefinitely suspended from membership in the congregation, in a rare and unusual Presbyterian Church trial...
...Died. Matilda Dodge Wilson, 83, heiress and philanthropist; of a heart attack; in Brussels. Widow of Automaker John Dodge (who left her some $44 million) and wife of Millionaire Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson, she was a director of numerous companies and a trustee of Michigan State University (then a college) from 1932 to 1938. Her most munificent gift was a $10 million package of land and cash donated to M.S.U. in 1957 for the founding of a new school: suburban Detroit's Oakland University, which now has an enrollment of 3,800 students...