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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheering crowds at the Empire Games' final ceremony in Cardiff, Wales that Charles was getting the title which Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight...
Nobody worried about increasing the membership beyond the present 870 or so, though the chamber seats only about 250: after all, fewer than a hundred regularly show up, and some Lords never have. Last week, after her ministers agreed on possible candidates, Queen Elizabeth named ten new male life peers and four women. The peeresses, who, with brand new titles, will take their seats in November...
Frondizi first outlined the present gloomy situation, in which Y.P.F., the government oil monopoly, produces only 35% of the country's annual needs. Although reserves are estimated at 2.3 billion bbl., Argentina is forced to import about $300 million worth of petroleum products a year-a sum roughly equal to the 1957 trade deficit. The President then listed the precedent-shattering development arrangements with foreign companies. The main deals...
...raising of its sights against far commoner ills than polio. Henceforth to be called simply the National Foundation, the aggressive organization that spent $34 million on the research that produced (among other gains) the Salk vaccine * will turn its attention to two other cripplers: the rheumatic diseases and defects present in children at birth...
...Society and its top officers. Mostly family doctors and general surgeons, they resented being frozen out of hospital staffs. were especially incensed at not being allowed to do even straightforward surgery in teaching hospitals. The county society demanded that the new Jefferson Davis rise on the hospital's present downtown site (on Buffalo Drive, four miles from the Medical Center), that the society should partly staff it and get one-third of the seats on its board. Result: every time Baylor University and the city fathers got set to start a new hospital in the Medical Center, the county...