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...LETTER FOR QUEEN VICTORIA...
...story comes from the private diaries of William Ewart Gladstone, Queen Victoria's least favorite Prime Minister, who, in his avowed efforts to save prostitutes from sin, apparently indulged in unspecified sexual pleasures and then scourged himself in punishment. The other, released by the Public Records office, discloses an unsuccessful cover-up by the British Cabinet and Buckingham Palace, which tried to suppress the facts about the homosexual activities of Lord Arthur Somerset, equerry to the then Prince of Wales who in 1901 became King Edward...
Ophuls's The Earrings of Madams de.... with Darrioux, Charles Boyer and Victoria de Sica, plus a Chaplin short, Sunday, March...
...Your Dukes is a gripping epic of the parliamentary struggle that stymied British government in 1865-6, when Gladstone refused to pay for the housing of Queen Victoria's relatives at state-owned casties and palaces. "I will not," he told a shocked Defender of the Faith, "put up your dukes." You, too, will not be amused. I'm not going to break an old Crimson tradition by saying anything good about this latest Hasty Pudding Theatrical. At 12 Holyoke St. at 8 p.m., every night until March...
...government offered a wage increase of $8 a month instead of the $40 that the cops had asked for. Most units returned to work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum after ultimatum to the strikers. Then he sent in tanks-Soviet-built T-55 models that smashed down the barracks doors as rangers trained in anti-guerrilla...