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Rutherford Hayes puts in an appearance-as the man who brought the telephone to the White House. Teddy Roosevelt is seen, not as the man who dispatched the Great White Fleet to prowl the world's ports, but rather as an amateur art critic who liked what he saw at the controversial New York Armory Show...
Royal tours are not exactly what they used to be. When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Canada last week at the start of an 11-day visit, Fleet Street virtually ignored the event. The airmail edition of the London Times carried only a three-sentence dispatch-by Agence France-Press; the Daily Mail carried not a line. Even the Canadians, who had not seen their Queen for two years, were not entirely overwhelmed. Some raised once again the question of whether Canada really needs a Queen. The Red Cross felt compelled to announce that a blood supply it had specially...
Nardelli also had a fleet of cars outside his headquarters ready to take Puerto Rican voters to the courthouse in the event that some were denied the right to vote because of a supposedly invalid registration. During the day, Nardelli's people transported over 150 people to the courthouse in upper Manhattan so that they could get orders allowing them to vote...
They can be found in almost any yacht harbor-the boats that always look as if they are ready to leave. Out among the perky day-sailors, the fuel-hungry motor yachts, the tall and graceful "gold-platers" of the racing fleet, they bob impatiently at their moorings. They want to be gone...
...husky cutter Quimera, shown sailing home from Catalina, is at once the newest and the oldest of this cruising fleet...