Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo last week received a friendly letter from former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew. Grew wanted Romulo to sponsor a new university in Japan. In his reply, Romulo pointed out that hundreds of Philippine schools are still in ruins made by the Japanese invaders, declined Grew's request. A few days earlier, Romulo had told a story to newsmen which threw a sharp light on his refusal. The incident, Romulo had explained, was one of his most vivid memories...
From the Spire. Last week, as Viennese again mounted the 343 precarious steps to the observation platform just above the lookout of 1683, they still talked about "the Turks," but they meant the Russians. From St. Stephen's, on a clear day, Viennese could see the Red Hungarian border, 40 miles away. They knew it was strung with barbed wire, studded with police stations-as ominous as the camels and the silken tents of the 17h Century Turks...
...cathedral's heavy larch roof and its covering of multicolored tiles collapsed into the nave. Since then, Viennese have donated 15 million schillings (about $570,000) to restore the cathedral, but St. Stephen's still needs 250,000 tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest citizen...
...that the last resting place of the great Karl Marx was thus ignored. They sent a delegation to Dr. Longuet in Paris offering to tend and beautify the London grave. The doctor, onetime Socialist who turned Communist in 1939, indignantly refused. "As long as I live," cried Longuet last week, "I will not permit any anti-Marxists to meddle with the grave. The Socialists have no business at my grandfather's grave...
Harvey's retorted, dead pan, that the change in the well-known name might cut down sales in dollar countries. Someone in the Food Ministry recognized the boner, and last week the advice was withdrawn. Said a contrite Ministry spokesman: "Nobody but an imbecile would connect sherry with the product...