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That Friday, a man named Cecil Andrews called the local television station four times threatening to set himself on fire in the town square as a protest against unemployment in America. An official at the station telephoned the police, and then sent two cameramen to the square. At 11:10 p.m. the cameramen found Andrews. They were certain, they said later, that police were hiding somewhere in the small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started...
...more advantageous position regarding communication with the faculty than we were a year ago." Cecil McNab, president of the Third World Coalition, said yesterday. "We're not at the same level of trust ration...
...support himself and his wife, and to pay off the debts of his brother Cecil, who died young, Chesterton contracted for more newspaper and magazine assignments than he could decently fulfill. But even a breakdown at age 40 could not slow him. In self-defense he lauded the ephemeral: "The daily paper is more important [than books] because citizenship must be more important than art, Dale praises this attitude; after all, "Wells, Shaw, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy-all saw themselves involved with and influencing events." But those men attempted, with whatever ludicrous results, to reach far into the future. Chesterton...
Their appearance, which featured a 15-minute speech by Cecil McNab, co-chairperson of the Third World Coalition, came less than a week after the end of the group's widely publicized boycott of a winter-term civil rights class...
...aides pointed out, inflation in Britain has fallen in the last year from 12% to about 6%. Government budget deficits have been brought under control, the trade balance is in healthy surplus, and unit labor costs are rising by a modest 5½% a year. Britain, said Tory Leader Cecil Parkinson, was "a very safe place to keep your money secure." If necessary, the Prime Minister will make the message clearer. After saving the Falklands, Thatcher hardly seemed likely to let the pound slip out of control...