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...asking policemen outside the arena if they understood English or French. They would just stare at me, point at my legs, and laugh, "Pantalones! Pantalones!" I was on the verge of breaking down and I soon began to make obscene gestures at the people laughing at me. Finally an usher at one of the entrances to the bullring took pity on me and went across the street to a firehouse, from which he graciously brought me an old, worn pair of uniform pants. They were about eight inches too big around the waist, and the zipper wouldn't work...
...Franco is dying. Two weeks ago his condition had become serious enough to force him to formally transfer power to his designated successor, the nondescript Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. As Franco's death seemed imminent, Spain was alive with rumors of the political and social transformations that would usher in the post-Franco era. Within a week, displaying the remarkable fortitude that has marked his entire career, Franco, according to government reports, had totally recovered, and had temporarily retired to his summer estate to rest. But authority remains with the prince, and it is clear that Franco's days...
...family's personal flights aboard Government aircraft. Even the committee staff admitted that it was breaking new ground on this point. There was no precedent because Nixon was the first President ever to let his family use military airplanes for personal trips. J. Bernard West, who as chief usher managed the White House under five Presidents, recalled that on such trips Lyndon Johnson's wife and daughters always traveled by commercial aircraft, often in economy class. John F. Kennedy's wife and children used a family-owned airplane, the Caroline...
Sanders announced another new development for Crimson basketball: The 1974-75 season will usher in two floor generals at the IAB instead of the traditional one. Junior bigmen Lou Silver and Lenny Adams will serve as co-captains of a Harvard squad that will return nine of eleven players. Sanders picked the dual captains after a series of team ballotings ended in tie-votes...
Died. Billy DeWolfe, 67, veteran stage and screen comedian who started out in show biz as a theater usher; of cancer; in Los Angeles. DeWolfe and his drooping mustache appeared in numerous vapid Hollywood comedies (the first: Dixie, in 1943) before hitting the big time with an impersonation of Mrs. Murgatroyd, a matronly tippler, in Blue Skies (1946) and later with a performance as a stuffy diplomat in Call Me Madam (1953). His successes on the stage included his role as J.B. Biggley in the London production and New York revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...