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...local concern in Boston named the Jiminy Cricket Travel Agency, said yesterday that it had received permission from the Soviet Union to sponsor a tour in June or July for up to 100 people. It claimed to be the only travel agency in the country to have such a service...
...cricket: "Give me a thumbscrew or slo fire every time...
...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...
...institutions do so many British gentlemen owe so much as they do to the overdraft. As peculiarly British as cricket, the overdraft is undefined but tradition-hallowed, its rules as precise and respected as though set in stone. The gentleman who finds himself short of funds simply writes a check on his account. The bank honors it (charging interest on the overdraft, providing the gentleman has been reasonable). If he hasn't, he is summoned to the bank managers' paneled chambers for a discreet chat, emerges knowing just how many pounds he may overdraw in the future...
...ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot and earned his cricket "blue."; Gazetted an officer in the British army, he fought with the Cameronians (2nd Scottish Rifles) at Kohat in 1921 and with the 17th Poona Horse in Waziristan in 1924. He was Britain's top policeman in the Khyber Pass area for 20 years before becoming Joint Secretary...