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...light-the new curfew seems doomed to be broken. Valentin, owner of one of Madrid's leading restaurants, will be one of the first to break it. "I'll pay all the fines I have to," he says, "but I won't close at midnight. I owe it to my public. If the fines are too big, I'll ask the United States for a foreign aid loan...
What is unexpected is the sort of debt last week's rioters owe the Cambridge City Police. For these gentlemen--many called in from their off-time--conducted themselves throughout both evenings with restraint, and their good sense and equally good nature kept the riot from developing into something far uglier than what it was: undergraduates revelling in spring and the diploma issue...
...same goes for other big archdioceses, such as Chicago, where Msgr. William E. McManus sees "no need for federal aid to Chicago, public or parochial," though he adds that "if it comes, we ought to get the crumb." McManus' schools handle 34% of all Chicago schoolchildren, owe more than $40 million. They stay afloat by central-bank deals and an average annual tuition charge of $25 in grade schools and $225 in high schools. "Come hell or high water," says Msgr. McManus, "we're going to have 125 new classrooms next fall, no matter what they...
...Committee needed 11 roll-call votes before rejecting by a 6-6 vote a motion to reconsider the slate, thus passing it. Salmond claimed that the delegation consisted of Alberg's "flunkies," that the members of the executive committee who voted with Alberg "owe their positions to him," and "there is no doubt in my mind" that a general meeting of the Club would elect Phillips to the delegation...
...space program. A more ambitious approach is to glide the returning space craft down through the atmosphere on red-hot wings and steer it undamaged to a desired landing strip. The Xis is no space craft, but when the first true space craft makes a controlled landing, it will owe a considerable debt to pioneering Major Robert White and his hot-nosed little airplane...