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When I first came to Cambridge my friend Ramon told me, "The bricks are very pretty, the ivy is very green, but the people, well Alexis, they are very strange." Only the next day I said to my friend Ramon, "Ramon, you are right, the students of Cambridge are certainly strange, and perhaps more than that." The night before I had gone to one of their local parties where a girl told me I should not wear my good suit but dungarees and a workingman's shirt. "God made me ugly enough," I told her. "If He had wanted...
LANNY R. MIDDINGS San Ramon, Calif...
...What some educated Spaniards would like, but few think is feasible, is the establishment of true political parties, one of which would share the philosophy of West Germany's moderate middle-class Christian Democrats. "We had no middle class in Spain before the war," says Barcelona Banker Ramon Trias Fargas. "But we have one now, and these people have no voice in politics-yet." Franco adamantly refuses to give them one. Only two months ago he rejected a proposal by moderate advisers that he allow a variety of nonradical political parties under the sheltering umbrella of the National Movement...
...explosion at Plaza Miranda that overshadowed everything else. For more than a month, the whole Liberal slate was hospitalized. After the candidates emerged, with crutches, wheelchairs and bandages, their campaign appearances resembled a mobile hospital ward. Ramon Bagatsing, who was elected Manila's new mayor last week, had lost a leg; Senator Jovito Salonga, another winner, received extensive shrapnel wounds. A Manila businessman observed: "It was like watching a hospital scene on television. But it will work for the Liberals, all right...
...most recent evidence is provided by Dr. Ramon Lange, chief of cardiology at Milwaukee County General Hospital, who reviewed the cases of workers at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis. Last April a woman whose work at the plant involved handling nitroglycerin, a component of dynamite, was referred to him for treatment of chest pains, which seemed to occur only on weekends...