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When the Times's San Francisco edition rolled off the press, it was perfectly legible (right down to the small-type financial quotations), its photographs were only a bit grainier than usual-and its news was as fresh as any in town. Estimated cost of the five-day experiment...
Germany last week was a stage for an unexpected act in a great drama-the struggle between the pain and glory of freedom under God and the numb death of tyranny under man. It was Kirchentag-a five-day rally of Germany's Evangelical Church-and church officials had never seen such crowds. Protestants streamed in from all over the country, 80,000 on the first day, 300,000 at the close (the U.S. Army provided tents to house some of the visitors). Long before the proceedings began, they packed medieval Roemerberg Square and flowed out into the surrounding...
Manuel Prado, the scholarly, conservative patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family, last week won the presidency of Peru with the help of the country's big, left-wing APRA party. In a five-day unofficial vote count, former President (1939-45) Prado inched steadily ahead of Architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, a young amateur politician whose campaign had suddenly caught fire two weeks before election day; both of them left the government's official candidate, Hernando de Lavalle, far behind. Totals at week's end:* Prado 445,000, Belaunde 404,000, Lavalle...
...FRENCH SUPERLINER will be built to ply North Atlantic runs, compete against British and U.S. vessels. To be named France, $78 million French Line ship will be 55,000 tons (v. 83,673 tons for Cunard's Queen Elizabeth), have luxury accommodations for 2,000 passengers on five-day crossing from Le Havre. First sailing: early...
Last week, at a five-day conference of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party, the party's First Secretary Antonin Novotny admitted that dissatisfaction had spread beyond the students. As a result of Khrushchev's historic speech to the 20th Party Congress, said Novotny, "235 party organizations, embracing a little over 15,000 members, under the influence of ambiguous and incorrect views, made the request that an extraordinary congress of the party should be called." Novotny turned the idea down flat: the party line was correct and "we need not alter...