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Honeymoon Route. After taking leave of President Lübke and Chancellor Erhard, the royal couple journeyed up the Rhine past the famous rock of the Lorelei (the same route Victoria and Albert took on their honeymoon) and dined near Darmstadt with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and Rhine-the Queen's distant cousin and Philip's brother-in-law-in his 18th century hunting castle. It was in Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before...
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...although I would prefer a shade more restraint in the main characters, I have no such quarrel with the supporting performances. Between them Victoria Weyler, Ronald Witt, Bill Christian, Alzada Knickerbocker, and Belford Lawson take care of the other eighteen parts very nicely indeed. Each one of them does at least one really good role. And Mr. Johnson redeems himself as Warty Bliggans, the toad who believes that "the earth exists to grow toadstools for me to sit under...
...campus in Calgary with an extra $2,000,000 thrown in for the nearby Banff School of Fine Arts. The University of British Columbia, which with 15,500 students in Vancouver is the biggest and the best in the West, has given birth to the newly independent University of Victoria in the province's garden-filled capital. In Burnaby, near Vancouver, the innovating Simon Fraser University will open next fall on a $15 million, 1,168-acre campus-just 18 months after the architects were commissioned. It will accept bright high-school juniors and seniors at ages...