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Queen Victoria, that's who. At Balmoral, she would have him and only him at her side indoors and out. They would go on long afternoon outings with the pony and trap-and a bottle of whisky in the boot. One of the Queen's Maids of Honor, meeting John Brown in the castle carrying a basket, once asked him whether the Queen was having her tea out that afternoon. "Weel, yus and nu," he muttered. "She dinna mooch like tay. We take out biscuits and sperruts...
...beautiful it was," he laments, "what a shame." He still keeps a lock of hair in an envelope), grew a thick mustache and blackened it with mascara, put on horn-rimmed glasses, stuffed a lump of metal in his right boot to force a limp and affected a severe facial...
...have leaped 56% since 1952 to $1,000 a year, which in actual purchasing power amounts to much more. Milan's 1,500,000 people pay 26% of the taxes-and grumble as if it were 100%. And all over North Italy-the flaring top quarter of the boot that lies above Florence-workers can now own the refrigerators and television sets they produce. Last year so many of them traded their motor scooters for autos that car registrations in Italy soared some...
...White House representative in Latin American, African and Asian affairs. "Why still keep him around to mess things up?" demanded the New York Daily News, which had repeatedly hollered for Bowles's hide. "JFK would do far better by simply giving the grand and final boot to Administration misfits, beginning with Bowles." Observed the Charlotte, N.C., Observer: "The fellow with the lopsided grin is no longer welcome at the President's table, but he may continue to accept the crumbs." The Detroit Free Press refused to accept the official line that Bowles had not been downgraded, said flatly...
...near Salzburg. Racing down a slalom run, the generally sobersided Karim veered off the marked course and bowled over an Austrian photographer who had chosen to ignore the Aga's refusal to permit pictures. When the collision was untangled, the victim took his mangled Minolta and gashed ski boot to the local police station, charging reckless skiing. But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed out of town...