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Britain's Transglobe Expedition is the first effort to circumnavigate the earth going over the poles, using only ground and sea transportation. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 38 (call him Ran Fiennes, his friends do), along with Compatriot Charles Burton, 40, and other team members, set out from Greenwich, England, in September 1979. On Easter Sunday, some 50,000 miles later, the adventurers raced the spring thaw to their penultimate destination, the top of the world. Though a hazardous voyage back to Greenwich over quickly melting ice still lies ahead, Fiennes was exuberant. He rammed a slightly frozen Union...
...head of the Democratic congressional delegation in California, Phil Burton of San Francisco was in charge of drawing new boundaries for the state's congressional districts. All last summer he and aides pored over computer printouts of voting patterns. When Congressman Burton finally unveiled his plan, it seemed a model of fairness: population figures for each of the 45 districts were remarkably equal, and few county and city lines were violated. The plan was quickly pushed through the Democratic-controlled state legislature, and Democratic Governor Jerry Brown promptly signed the bill into...
...Republicans scrutinized the maps closely, they began yelling like devotees of primal-scream therapy. Burton had carved the state into a patchwork of jags and jigs, all designed to create as many Democratic districts as possible. The 27th District, traditionally a Republican stronghold, once hugged the coastline; now dubbed the "anteater's snout," it turns inland at Santa Monica and travels along a Democratic corridor just a few blocks wide into the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Burton also proved to be his brother's keeper: to preserve the seat of his sibling, Democratic Congressman John Burton...
...than through parliament. Martens announced an 8.5% devaluation of the franc and, most important, suspended Belgium's system of indexing all wages to inflation. "This is the tenth time in Belgian history that the government has been given special powers by the King," Martens told TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton. "Many of the other occasions were times of war, and I consider this period to be war in terms of the economic problems we face...
...love you, in Welsh) proclaimed Elizabeth Taylor, 50, arms outstretched, as she swept across the stage of London's Duke of York's Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown...