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Samuel E. McGregor, chief of the beekeeping research branch of the U S Department of Agriculture, is not optimistic. "I can't see much hope of stopping them from coming north," he says. "The chances are that they'll reach Panama in a few years, and then come on to the U.S." McGregor believes that the long, cold winters of the U.S. snow belt would prove fatal to the Africans but that they will probably survive and thrive in California and most of the Southeast. Nonetheless, McGregor remains philosophical. The Africans are mean, and "they do sting like...
...genuine genius, which she poured into some of the best known children's books ever published. In The Tale of Peter Rabbit, one of the simplest, shortest and fastest-moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs as her masterpiece-The Tailor...
...November, took a long time to negotiate. The idea occurred originally to Air Canada's President Gordon Mc Gregor, 65, a World War II fighter pilot who has built Air Canada into a flourishing line with 42,000 miles of route to the U.S., Europe and the Caribbean. McGregor wanted Moscow on his route as well, flew there for discussions with General E. F. Loginov, who is both Aeroflot's head and Russia's director of civil aviation. Discussions between the governments droned on, but one reason the agreement finally got airborne was that the Russians were...
...fulfill the hope that the quarterly would provide a forum for articulate and convincing undergraduate political thought. The current issue is, however, a distinct improvement over the previous two largely because it includes a published interview with associate professor of Government James Q. Wilson, a scathing review of James McGregor Burns' Presidential Government by Barney Frank, and some eloquent, enlightening observations about Charles De Gaulle by Jean Lacouture...
...strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like Walt Stiel's $375 mustang, stenciled to look like giraffe. Still others have prices that are actually fun, like McGregor's $50 mock crocodile jacket...