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...table," says Crawford of the inn's public rooms. So the dining room has long, rustic tables ("with room for a roast," says Crawford). In an outbuilding dating from 1135, guests can gather around small tables next to crackling fires. The chef uses ingredients from nearby purveyors, like Machin's butchers in Henley, and has even been known to barter a meal in exchange for locally grown vegetables. Conveniently, the Olde Bell is within an hour's drive of central London, making it the perfect stop for a pint of ale and some braised mutton chops (theoldebell.co.uk...
...already on the scene, and central to the play, meet at the house of Geoffrey Carson (David Langton), a mine owner. Dick Wagner (John Thaw) is a gruff yet engaging Australian. He is soon scooped by Jacob Milne (Peter Machin), an idealistic cub reporter who has interviewed the inaccessible rebel leader...
When De Gaulle was out of power, he liked to describe the continual shifts of Ministers in the Fourth Republic's Cabinets by saying, "Chose, machin, chouette [thingamabob, thingamajig, whosit] are being replaced by chouette, machin, chose." He often referred to members of the National Assembly as pisse froid or pisse vinaigre. In private, he often called France "vacharde"-inert or uninspired. The fact was that France offered De Gaulle too limited a scope and power base. Try as he might, he could not change the basic reality that France simply lacked the specific gravity to offset the force...
Senior linebacker Bob Machin was the winner of the LaCroix Award for the team's Unsung Hero...
...relative price peace, the Government's inflation-watching machinery has grown rusty. Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge, who had scheduled a routine hold-the-line price pep talk with steelmen in Washington for this week, was caught flat-footed by the bar-products rise. Unless and until the machin ery gets back into well-oiled condition, there are bound to be more squeaks and squawks ahead...