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...hopes of winning a $20,000 grant to study the role of igneous rocks in primitive man's music. The rival for the grant, one Hugh Simon, is the villain of the piece, plagiarist and foreigner, with an accent as unequivocally Yugoslavian as Streisand's is New Yorkese. Complications breed complications, and descent into farce takes about all of five minutes...
...Angeles is not the only place in America where life revolves around the automobile [April 3]. Wherever automobiles can be found, there will be a breed of unique and happy people to customize, worship and race them...
...cheeked lads and shy maids are living it up in Chelsea, and the nut-brown ale is thin and sour, but cottages with roofs thatched in reed or straw are back in style. The British government is acting to preserve the best examples, and the thatchers themselves -an independent breed that was dying out-suddenly have more work than they can possibly handle...
...cheeked lads and shy maids are living it up in Chelsea, and the nut-brown ale is thin and sour, but cottages with roofs thatched in reed or straw are back in style. The British government is acting to preserve the best examples, and the thatchers themselves -an independent breed that was dying out-suddenly have more work than they can possibly handle...
...Protestants see it, the Catholics have opted out of the system by refusing to recognize Ulster's independence from the rest of Ireland. Schools are segregated, they point out, because Catholics insist upon it. To many if not most Protestants, Catholics are lazy, "breed like rabbits," and have the Queen's picture on the pound notes in their pockets but not on their walls. "Are you loyal to the Crown or the half-crown?" goes an old Protestant gibe...