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Newly elected Tory Party Leader Margaret Thatcher defended the expenditures on the grounds that the monarchy is "our most precious asset." Others, though, are beginning to see it differently. Said Labor M.P. James Wellbeloved during the floor debate: "In my household, and in every other, there is another sovereign, the housewife, who is struggling to keep her family afloat in the turbulent sea of inflation. We must prevent people like this from becoming resentful of the institution that leads them." For some M.P.s, however, the reaction of Britain's housewives was of less concern than the reaction of Britain...
...reliquary attributed to Giacomo di Sulmona. In the whole week more than 180 works of art were stolen in Italy; an average of 27 a day, one every six hours from churches in Tuscany alone. One may safely bet that by 1980 most of these things-some trivial, some precious in their testimony to lost hierarchies of consciousness-will have gone through the big auction houses or been sold by "respectable" private dealers in Europe or the U.S. That is what the art market comes down to: a brutish mugging that never stops. Urbino has turned every public work...
...HISTORY Department recently ended two years of debate on whether to abolish or restructure its general examinations by offering senior concentrators eight precious hours of its senior faculty's time...
...familiarity with high cuisine, wine and good tailoring was thus all naturally acquired. So too was his profound abhorrence of totalitarianism. Says Angleton: "If one has lived much of his life abroad, as I have, one is apt to judge his country more precious than do those who know no other country well." He recalls the day in 1936, when he was 18 and working through a summer holiday as an apprentice mechanic in National Cash Register's Paris factory, that the workers heard about the Wehrmacht reoccupation of the Rhineland. Says Angleton: "The workers to a man threw...
Dress Right. Instead of being shocked awake by a whistle or worse, the recruit begins his day at 5:30 a.m. when the lights are snapped on. There is no reveille formation. Matter of fact, there is no retreat and there are precious few other occasions when the new soldier has to fall in and dress right...