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Heartened by Roman Catholic Church support for their demands, some 1,000 striking workers in Barcelona gathered around the palace of Archbishop Gregorio Modrego y Casáus, seeking more aid in their dispute with employers. When police pushed to the scene, priests mingled with the protesting mob to restrain both workers and police from violence. Finally the archbishop himself appeared, to urge calm and send the workers on their...
Married. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 24, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie of the Hellenes, 23, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika; in consecutive Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox ceremonies; in Athens (see THE WORLD...
...Khrushchev. "You forget prominent Russian proverb!" he confided to his companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...
Unfortunately, the Crimson is not likely to celebrate its homecoming with a victory. The varsity outpointed Yale, 60 to 531/2, in the indoor H-Y-P meet, but the outdoor schedule of events is definitely not conducive to further Crimson success...
...four of the combinations involving letters J, K, L, P, R, S, W, X, Y are deemed useless on the ground that no one could countenance a telephone number beginning with something like YPres, YLang, WRath or KRemlin. That leaves only 60. Even with an additional number tacked onto the two-letter code, creating exchanges like PRospect 1 up through PRospect 9, there are still only 540 combinations available. This was more than enough until Direct Distance Dialing came on the scene in 1951. The U.S. is now divided into 105 code areas, each having its own three-digit number...