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England is depicted in English as the country which Dickens describes in The Cricket on the Hearth. The conclusion drawn from this picture of England (in the nineteenth century) is that "Dickens gives many pictures of the hard and ugly life of the working people in capitalist England...
...Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin Chinese, likes shooting and tennis, sometimes takes a whack at cricket...
...Diplomat Rogers' mind, Britain's consumers, industrial managers and trade unions alike are all to blame for a situation that spoils the economy because of a misplaced sense of charity, which makes Britons feel that competition just "isn't cricket...
Habits: Prodigious cigar smoker (Churchill sends him his Havana specials by the hundreds) and wine connoisseur. Follows tennis and cricket "not as a fan but as a fanatic," and has been known to adjourn state conferences in London to attend Davis Cup and cricket Test matches...
...Prime Minister Robert Menzies was named chairman. Deputy Undersecretary of State Loy Henderson the U.S. representative. Menzies, who earlier in the week had been riding to conference sessions with a TV set in his limousine so as not to miss a minute of the Australia v. England cricket matches, pronounced his committee's task so delicate that "we should all be as silent as Trappist monks." By week's end Cairo intimated that Nasser would receive the conference's proposals "as a matter of courtesy." Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was asked what would happen...