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...fall reduces the number of outright Stalinist rulers to one: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who, understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes would help them win more freedom at home and new friends abroad...
Prince Philip sent a telegram: "It was the best news I've heard." Prime Minister Harold Wilson added congratulations, and all three British political parties endorsed the girls' move. Britain's new poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (see following story) wrote a tribute. BBC-TV featured the girls on its major news program, and two London ad agencies bought full pages in the Times of London to hail their spirit. London's Financial Times praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning...
...made two speeches and checked his primary prospects, McCarthy was heartened by a poll of 21,000 students, faculty and staff members of 19 Northeast universities, which showed 75% "would not express confidence" in the way L.B.J. runs the war. Atop that, 1,271 Cornell signers sent McCarthy a telegram of good cheer. Of the five state primaries he has promised to enter, he was credited with solid strength in three: California, Oregon and Wisconsin. He has also announced that he will run in Massachusetts and Nebraska...
...Felice and Clare. He is the manager and leading man and she the leading lady of a dramatic troupe playing an engagement in a fortress-like theater in a grimly foreign, extremely cold town. The pair have just been deserted by the rest of the company with a farewell telegram charging that they are insane. Since the "audience" is already filing into the theater, Felice and Clare have no choice but to put on an item in their repertory called "The Two Character Play...
Before the constitution could be adopted, a referendum was to be held on the question of Anguillian independence. Fisher was back in Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard--when, on the 10th of July, he received a telegram reading "REFERENDUM SET FOR THE 11TH IMPERATIVE YOU RETURN IMMEDIATELY BRING INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS." He did his best...