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Last spring Mayor Gonzalo de la Calle found that the vacant plaza interfered with some city rebuilding projects. Armed with the ancient contract, he crossed the French border to Bayonne, where many of Vitoria's exiled Jews had once settled. Seeking out the surprised leaders of Bayonne's Sephardic Jewish community, he asked them to release Vitoria from the terms of its ancient pledge. They readily agreed...
...Vacant Chair. Wan, drawn, and wearing an ankle-length mink coat, Evita attended the main act of the brief inaugural. Riding in the presidential limousine to the Congress building, she sat at her husband's side in the vice president's traditional place-the place she would have occupied in her own right had army opposition not forced withdrawal of her nomination last year. Last week she sat there only because the place was vacant; Vice President Hortensio Quijano had died since November's elections...
...PEOPLE THAN IT IS WITH THEM. MR. KERNAN'S NEAR CONTEMPT ' FOR THE LAITY INDICATES QUITE CLEARLY THAT HIS OWN PRIESTHOOD IS LACKING IN THOSE VIRTUES FOR WHICH HIS ORDINATION VOWS CALLED 26 YEARS AGO. HIS PLACE AMONG THE DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM UNDER LAW WILL BE VACANT, BUT HE WILL NOT BE MISSED...
...post has been vacant since the war, and as a result administrative and fiscal work has piled up on Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the H.A.A...
...passion for anonymity. But last week, as Chairman Irving Olds retired at 65 and President Fairless took on his job as well, Blough (rhymes with plow) emerged as the heir apparent to what has traditionally been Big Steel's biggest job. He took over the long-vacant vice-chairmanship of the company...