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...Oxford lost to Cambridge in rugby, badminton and lacrosse. In the press, antiquarians wryly recalled the dark days of 1907, when Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India, defeated Lord Rosebery, former Prime Minister, by going to such extremes as dragging the Ambassador to Belgium all the way across the Channel to vote. Others recalled that former Prime Minister Lord Oxford and Asquith, who lost to a relatively unknown opponent, had taken his defeat hard in 1925. In order to find a precedent for a Prime Minister's seeking the job while in office, historians...
...broadcasting station on Toronto's Bloor Street, installed color and video tape transmitting equipment able to serve 100,000 receivers, leased 100 miles of coaxial cable to carry the transmissions. Overall cost: $1,500,000. Unlike the Bartlesville system, which cost a flat $9.50 per month for two channels, the company charged an initial $5 for installing a three-channel Telemeter box that fits any receiver, does not affect other reception. Consumers pay only for what they watch, can store up to $2.50 in the Telemeter...
Juneau lay under a woolly fog that rolled in off the Gastineau Channel, and airplanes carrying Alaska legislators probed in frustrating circles over the capital's airport. Some lawmakers turned to dog sled and Coast Guard cutter, others waited restlessly in clearer areas until the fog lifted, but everybody was on hand last week when the new state's first legislature was gaveled into its second session. Fortuitously, a "Capital-Site Steering Committee" came around with petitions bearing the signatures of 13,000 Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage...
...Maracaibo and the "Christmas trees" of valves spotted across the surrounding scrubby, flat land, a great flood of oil pours into the silvered storage tanks of foreign oil companies, including the world's largest petroleum producer, Standard-controlled Creole Petroleum Corp. Hard-hatted workmen spin the valves that channel the flood to docks where tankers simmer in the sun and to refineries where wastes flare in smoky orange flames...
...which Castro tirades are the standard late late show, watched bug-eyed. Castro, taken aback at first, took charge of the show to shout: "A breach of conduct! You are not in Spain but in the Republic of Cuba." The picture went off the air, but the sound channel carried Lojendio's shout: "I have been slandered! I have been slandered!" Guards then hustled the marquis off to his residence...