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...returned from one prewar trip to convince his father that cars had it all over camels-a message that was to cost Saudi millions for air-conditioned Cadillacs. But as Saudi princes go, Feisal lives modestly, restricting himself to a couple of modest palaces and only one wife, to whom he has been married for 22 years...
...PHILIPPINES. The only large and economically important colony ever held by the U.S. got its independence, according to prewar promise, on July 4, 1946. (Puerto Rico, offered independence, chose to remain tied to the U.S. as a semi-autonomous "commonwealth...
...place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
...Mayor Robert Wagner. The mayor sternly called on Detroit to quit making cars bigger, and in letters to carmakers decried the "continuing burdens" that big cars are placing on cities. In the same space, parking lots can handle 15% fewer cars than ten years ago, said he, while prewar garages handle 40% less...
Died. General Napoleon Zervas, 66, swart, barrel-chested Greek soldier of fortune, reactionary politico, onetime (1950-51) Minister of Public Works and Merchant Marine, who redeemed his prewar years as a conniver, gambler and opportunistic plotter with a skillful guerrilla war during the German occupation of Greece (as head of EDES-National Democratic Army), for which he received Britain's Order of the British Empire, later was credited with rounding up 17,000 Communists in Greece's postwar civil strife; of a heart ailment; in Athens, where his elder brother, Merchant Alex Zervas, collapsed and died after seeing...