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Today, aside from being Guy Fawkes Day in England, is election day in Cambridge. In England the day is a memorial to a frustrated attempt to blow up Parliament and the reigning monarch...
...thorny problem of whether public officials and their families should accept large gifts. Beaver is not quite Democratic mink in spite of the latest advertising ploy, but the present administration has also been embarrassed by the generosity of King Saud of Arabia. One aide accepted an automobile from the monarch, and there are many daggers, watches and other golden mementos waiting to be distributed. In addition, Senator Wayne Morse has been unkind enough to nag the President about gifts of livestock and a tractor for his Gettysburg homestead...
...blue and green for different functions, the arrangements for coverage ran surprisingly smoothly. Reporters twitted each other about drawing for places in a pool of "pantry peepers" who peeked at the royal dinner in Ottawa's Government House. But for the first time in Canada a reigning British monarch held a reception for the press, and when Elizabeth and Philip held another in Washington, British newsmen skulking unhappily in the corners wondered whether it could ever happen in London...
Turkish Ambassador Seyfullah Esin said his government had informed the Saudi Arabian monarch that it was prepared to take part in mediation efforts. Asin heads Turkey's U.N. delegation...
...Jamestown. On Sunday, Elizabeth and Philip attended services at Ottawa's old Christ Church Cathedral; there Philip read the Parable of the Talents to an overflowing congregation. This week Elizabeth would open the Canadian Parliament (the first time a reigning monarch had performed this act), then fly to Jamestown, Va. for a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of North America's first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also...