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...Awful Bore. As the first German Hanover to occupy a throne in more than 80 years. Frederika more than justified her regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance of Greek politics. Frederika's personal charm and many good works had gone far in Greece to wipe out the stain of her German past and the fact that three of her brothers were officers in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Her Teutonic inclination toward rigid government was not so easy...
...pioneer in the automotive industry, with a prosperous General Motors distributorship based in Kansas City, Mo., Robert Greenlease was 65 when his 39-year-old wife bore him a son. The boy, Bobby, grew into an alert six-year-old who always knew what he wanted and usually got it. His kiddie car was a battery-powered jeep, scaled to his size, and his pets included a green parrot and a French poodle...
...here, unfortunately, the whole thing was handled in the style of an old-fashioned debating society. Everyone struck attitudes, the simplest idea seemed clad in armor, there was something too declamatory for talk, yet too stiff for eloquence. High-minded and literate, the play came off a stately bore...
...contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just who, demanded Chekhov, were these wonderful peasants Tolstoy was always talking about? He himself had "peasant blood in my veins" and bore the marks of peasant beatings What did the count know about such things...
...leadership. Investment trusts, for instance, which have been switching out of such stocks as autos, steels, rails and farm equipment-those most vulnerable to any recession-have been going in for utilities, foods, tobaccos. And the fact that some investment trusts were buying the stock of personal loan companies bore out the fact that changing conditions always bring new opportunities in the market, such as the bank stocks' benefiting by the Government's higher-interest policy...