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...extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...
...goes Don Juan-into a most un-Seville world. He tries to guitar his way through a modern woman's window, but she (Beverly McFadden) is impatient with all that jazz. Her door stands open. He purrs softly: "To describe your beauty, night, which veils your modesty, would blush." "Modesty?" says the broad. "I only slipped this on because it's a little cool after the sun goes down." Her husband (Alex Reed) enters with unbatting eyes, offers his wife's new lover a friendly drink. Don Juan is crushed. He is looking for trust to trespass...
...minute torpedoing of the registrar plan, to which they are heavily committed. But Rogers seemed to have the last and most effective word: the referee plan, he said, had been presented as soon as it had been carefully worked out. And all sides had to admit that, at first blush, it was the most reasonable idea anybody had thought...
...blush'd, and ay she sigh...
Modest Canada would blush to have invented Red China's grandiose motto "Great Leap Forward"-but in the past decade Canada has leaped. High in resources and low in population. Canada has taken giant strides toward a level of prosperity that only the U.S. surpasses; while the U.S.'s gross national product has climbed 50% since 1950, Canada's has jumped 90%-an advance in which U.S. investment dollars played a dominant role. Cuba, for its part, seems intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME...