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...SUBSCRIBER REGRETS THAT YOUR USUALLY WELL-INFORMED MAGAZINE IS SO IGNORANT OF ENGLISH POLITICS AS TO PRINT SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF "THE TEMPEST & THE TOSSED" IN JUNE 14 ISSUE [calling the House of Lords "little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men"]. YOUR LONDON EDITOR SHOULD ATTEND LORDS DEBATE AND MODERNIZE HIS FACTS...
...London last week, from Blackfriars to Tilbury, the normally bustling Thames-side was a brackish backwater. Its forest of cranes was all but motionless. At its wharves 154 ships, Plimsolls awash, groaned to be delivered of cargoes. This week many a Briton would eat more corned beef and dislike it, while fresh beef, Irish eggs and succulent tomatoes waited or rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things...
...less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices as high as $23.70 a cwt., griped because the embargo was still...
...Last month, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner boldly announced that the embargo was coming off "soon." It looked like a shrewd move to win friends in the west and help Gardiner capture the Liberal Party leadership in August. But the mere promise of action sent cattle and beef prices up. That made consumers sore. And when Gardiner's great day seemed too long a-coming, cattlemen growled their disappointment...
...Nice, San Remo, Lucerne, Rome, BadenBaden, Vienna. He remembered and carefully catered to the whims of such tourists as Cornelius Vanderbilt (who liked to chew cold cigars), John Wanamaker (who asked "are you leading a Christian life?"), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (who liked his beef well-done). On one of the jobs, César Ritz formed a lifelong partnership with an obscure chef named Auguste Escoffier...