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From the moment he arrived in the U.S. from New Malden, Surrey two years ago, a 42-year-old Briton named William George Philpot began wondering what he could do about an American trait that bothered him. At every traffic light someone behind him honked a horn. Five weeks ago in Detroit, Philpot ordered a metal sign. He bolted it to the rear of his car and set forth. The honking stopped. Last week, as a final test, he drove through clangorous Manhattan. Even there, the sign worked. Philpot sighed with relief, and set out in his self-made zone...
...hard to dodge a conclusion that the Briton who is willing and able to take more than a narrow view of his own interest must take a chance with the Tories...
Anyone who has lived there, and is honest, knows that the "native" is no less human and peculiar than the average Lett, Finn, Parsee, Mongol and Persian; not to mention American, Briton or Russian...
Norman St. John-Stevas, 22, is no ordinary Briton. He is not merely "Oxford," nor is he really "Cambridge"; by the end of the year, he will have a bachelor's degree from both. In the London Spectator last week, he turned his double vision on an ancient riddle: just what are the differences between...
Britain, whose subsidies support Jordan's tough little Arab Legion, made a show of force by going through with the executions. But the tough Briton who runs the Legion was nervous. Glubb Pasha's house was surrounded by half a platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...