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...contrast, the 4,000 Asians who had landed in Britain by the end of last week paid BOAC, British Caledonian and East African Airways a usuriously high charter fare of $286 a seat, more than the average family would pay on a scheduled flight. At their destination they found a mixed reception. Amin's threats of detention have created a climate of sympathy and good will for the victims of his mass expulsion of Asians holding British citizenship. But there still remains a strong undercurrent of racist opposition to the new arrivals. Responding to local pressures in some cities...
...embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel put the travelers up for a night in $20-a-day rooms without charge, and British Caledonian Airways and Wimpy International Ltd., a hamburger chain, chartered a plane and flew them home free...
...takeovers of French companies; it is composed of four men, all under 40, including the personal assistants of Pompidou and Giscard. Known as the "Four Musketeers," the men have succeeded in denying the Heinz Co. control in Grey-Poupon mustard and in getting Ugine-Pechiney to invest in New Caledonian nickel facilities, thereby countering an expansion move by International Nickel...
...building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists, or at least poets...
...rarely seen in the Caprice or other flossy restaurants. In her free time she goes to the theater or the ballet, and is reading her way through Dostoevsky, George Moore, the Brontes and Jane Austen. She likes to forage among the stalls of the Caledonian Market for inexpensive antiques, which she gives away for Christmas presents. She also likes to shop for clothes. "I don't buy any. I just look at them. I'm the shopgirl's despair...