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...fellow heads of state when he granted interviews to a flock of European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion to Poet Dylan Thomas' birthplace in Wales. The request was made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking the President on a tour of the Labor stronghold would...
...their own quiet way, several groups in the Harvard community have begun to request that the University at least take a firm stand against the white-minority regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia...
...letter will also request that Fox reconsider altogether his breakfast decision, which establishes Leverett, Quincy, Kirkland and Currier as the only Houses to serve hot breakfasts...
Three student representatives presented the request in a letter sent Tuesday to Ebert and two officials of the school's faculty council, Judith N. Wasserheit, a third-year student and member of the school's student-faculty committee, said yesterday...
Annie runs away, is recaptured, and escapes again when Oliver ("Daddy") Warbucks (Reid Shelton) makes a request for an orphan child on whom to lavish a billionaire's Christmas bounty. Guess the rest; it's no great test. Of course, you might not guess that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would be tastelessly trundled on in a wheelchair and be smarmily caricatured by Raymond Thorne. And you might not dream that the updated Daddy Warbucks is as chummy with F.D.R. as he is with Bernard Baruch...