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...sunlight of its deserts. Europe and the U.S. could call Iran's bluff by offering to build enough solar-power plants to supply all the country's needs. It would be an inexpensive way to reduce worries about how to restrict the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Gerry Wolff Anglesey, Wales...
Coddington herself was a model in 1960s London. She was raised in Anglesey, a remote Welsh island, where her parents ran a hotel. At 18, she left home for London, where she won a Vogue model contest. After a few years of modeling, she began working for British Vogue, where she introduced her narrative spreads, more color and a broader sense of style...
...Tinto will build its 112,000-ton smelter on the Welsh island of Anglesey at Holyhead. As the "buying-in" price for a cheap power deal, it will in vest $79 million in the new Dungeness nuclear-power station in Kent. British Aluminium got the coveted site at Invergordon in the Highlands, the last undeveloped deep-water port in the United Kingdom. Its 112,000-ton smelter there will be fueled at the cheap rate in return for a $70 million investment...
...Marquess of Anglesey (428 pp; Morrow; $7.50). A debonair portrait of one of the great 19th century soldier-aristocrats by his admiring great-great-grandson, the present marquess. Henry William Paget, Lord Anglesey, spent 20 years in the House of Commons without making a single speech. He had much more to say to the ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk...
...tiny, flinty chip off the old block, who herself served as Liberal M.P. from the Welsh island of Anglesey for 22 years and as deputy party leader for two, Megan Lloyd George turned Laborite-in 1955, and when taxed about it replied: "I'm a radical, like my father before me. The Liberal Party is no longer the home for radicals." Last week, representing her new party on the hustings for the first time, she was contesting the first Liberal seat to fall vacant since she joined Labor...