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...Connally coming back into the nation's future? He was a powerful figure before the committee, directed the drama, played the lead role, gave the epilogue. He was attentive to the Congressmen, one of whom is half his age, just 18 when the shots were fired on Nov. 22, 1963. He was not afraid to describe the shots, the blood, the brains, the feeling. Connall did not waver. The men in front of him were reduced to size. Once he referred to "Senator" Kennedy. John Kennedy had never really been more than that to the Texans...
...times: the beaches have been slipping into the Atlantic and the tourists are slipping north to Disney World and south to Caribbean casinos. So some of the area's businessmen have been pressing hard for the legalization of casino gambling, a matter voters will decide in a Nov. 7 referendum...
Finally, last Nov. 10, Steptoe extracted an egg from one of Lesley's ovaries, and placed it in a laboratory dish. Edwards then fertilized the egg with John Brown's sperm. Two and a half to three days later, when the egg had undergone three cell divisions, it was placed in Lesley's uterus. Said Edwards about Baby Louise: "The last time I saw her, she was a beautiful eight-celled embryo...
...Saints' Day, a Christian feast that commemorates the spiritual heroism of the early martyrs, has a double significance to the French. With a canny sense of symbolism, Algeria's fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...
Given the robust good health of his mother Queen Elizabeth, chances are that it will be some years before Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King. But as he approaches his 30th birthday (Nov. 14), this scion of the House of Windsor has clearly come into his own, not so much a monarch in waiting as a mature royal Prince who is a man of his times despite those anachronistic titles. Relaxed and at ease in his ceremonial chores, Charles has worked to extend the influence and interests of the royal family during a time of change for Britain...