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During her 15-year-long parliamentary career, peppery Laborite Edith Summer-skill, doughty feminist and onetime Minister of National Insurance, has outraged many a British male by views that ranged from ringing denunciations of bacon & eggs for breakfast to a demand for a law requiring all men to tell their wives how much money they earn. Four years ago, when every British man worthy of his gender stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly...
...This year, as Columbia celebrated its 200th anniversary, it could summon scholars from all over the world to attend its year-long series of conferences and convocations. But in spite of its international prestige, it has never lost its early sense that the city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial...
...collection of Mozart's works (subsidized by the Austrian and German governments); 2) new recordings of everything the composer ever wrote, to be issued by Philips of The Netherlands; 3) festivals in 20 of the German cities (including East Germany) Mozart is known to have visited; 4) a year-long festival in his birthplace city of Salzburg, with candles burning in the windows of every house in town on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Jan.27...
Margarita has apparently settled the year-long question of whether Jimmy Joslin or Mat Botsford would start at tailback. He has benched both men, and moved fullback Paul Abrahamian to the left halfback spot...
...prisoners; 2) foreigners held in Soviet prisons on espionage counts were released; 3) retail prices were reduced on 125 categories of consumer goods; 4) the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the doctors' plot was a frame-up, freed the doctors who had been unjustly tortured; 5) a year-long purge in Georgia was ended with the appointment of a new Premier and new party secretaries; 6) the Communists in Korea announced that they were ready to make important concessions to get a truce; 7) in Austria and in East Germany there was a switch from military to civilian...