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...Britain these days to have a Rolls-Royce, tremendously in to drive a battered Land Rover. The royal family, according to Editor Stevens, is in just so long as it is treated lightly. "One says, 'I'm giving a little party. I know it's a bore, but the Queen is coming. Never mind, she will leave about 2 and then we can enjoy ourselves.' That is terribly, terribly...
...shilling-paying visitors to his stately country home, has become an out, says Queen's Stevens, "because he has comnlercialized what he has inherited, and enjoyed doing it. It is 'in' to open your house to the public, but you must say, 'Oh, what a bore this is.' " Land is important to all ins, "but only an out would inquire the number of acres. Instead, one asks: 'How many days' shooting have you?' The reply, 'Four first days,' means about 8,000 to 10,000 acres...
...Westerners in Burma who knew him, Stryguine bore a remarkable physical resemblance to Frank Sinatra. He was small, thin, sunken-faced. Quick and aggressive, he could also be charming and gregarious. Mikhail Stryguine entered the Russian army at 17, fought in the infantry in World War II, became a full colonel at 31, and seemed destined for big things in the Red army. A 1953-55 tour of duty as a liaison officer with U.S. forces in Frankfurt gave him his first look at another kind of life. Assigned as military attache to Rangoon in 1957, Stryguine seemed anxious...
...Lisbon last week, the Minister of the Interior belatedly announced that two months ago the government had nipped in the bud a plot to take over the country. The plot bore the preposterous name of "Operation Cocktail," and the people behind it, said the minister, included all classes and were all "most confused." Among those arrested: a priest, nine army officers, 22 civilians. Behind this threat to the 27-year dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, police also saw the features of flamboyant General Humberto Delgado, who in last year's election got a surprising 23% of the votes...
...same wages. When classes begin, the props are Spartan: a few books, a folding blackboard. Recalls Welfare Worker Dean Bowman, who arrived at the Geco uranium mines in northwestern Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...