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...settled down in England, with a small income, a conservative club (the Cocoa Tree), a cottage in Surrey (for Ethel) and growing celebrity as a writer of comic short stories. But nobody ever takes a comic writer seriously, and, Saki complained, "a humorist is almost invariably expected to be funny for life." As World War I approached, he grew discontented with the coffee-spoon London world that had provided him with targets for satiric comedy, as well as with himself for belonging...
...helps that the nation is asking these questions at a time of year when it is otherwise busy squinting up at tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season...
Moreover, the two companies were very complementary. Phibro reaped profits of $467 million last year by trading in about 150 commodities ranging from tobacco and cocoa to zirconium and Peruvian bird droppings. It now wanted to offer new financial services like raising investment capital for its trading clients. The 71-year-old Salomon Bros., on the other hand, wished to expand its operations beyond traditional bond trading and corporate underwriting. Strategic metals, grains and other commodities, after all, have in recent years been some of the best investments around...
...This certainly isn't Cocoa Beach, where you feel the sand between your toes," Ray Morth, a 51-year-old daily Fresh Pond jogger says, huffing heavily between words. "But," he adds, "it's the closest thing...
Most teen-agers would probably have been delighted to learn they had got 48 out of 50 questions right on a tough mathematical aptitude test. Not Daniel Lowen, 17, a junior at Cocoa Beach High School in Florida. Told his score in the math portion of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test that he took last fall along with 830,000 other students nationwide, Dan was displeased. He was convinced that his answer to question No. 44-one of those marked incorrect-was in fact correct. He even made a model to prove his case to his father, Douglas Lowen...