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...from the new market. The duty on alcohol and tobacco, for example, was lifted for individual travelers. "We enjoy drinking wine, but we cannot afford it at British prices," said Barbara Green, the wife of a taxi driver from the British port of Ramsgate whose family went on a cross-Channel shopping spree. Charging down the aisles of a Calais supermarket, the Greens scooped up five crates of beer, five bottles of whiskey and 38 bottles of wine. "These are for our wedding anniversary," she said. With Barbara's mother stocking up on brandy and champagne, the family spent...
Bart Simpson The ultimate cautionary tale: from cameo appearances to T-shirt overexposure in just one year. Now cross-channel rival Bill Cosby is crowing that he survived the Bart challenge...
...will provide double-deck rail cars for automobiles (proposed fare: about $30 for a vehicle and driver) and single- deckers for trucks. France Manche officials claim that an entire train could be loaded in only ten minutes. The crossing will take 30 minutes, vs. 75 minutes for ferries and 35 minutes for Hovercraft now plying the shortest (21- mile) cross-Channel route, from Dover to Calais. If France's high-speed TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) network is extended to the Channel coast, the Paris-London train journey will take 3 3/4 hours, half the average time of the current...
Rolling through the viridian Kentish countryside, there is time for a leisurely lunch, a free, staunchly English repast designed perhaps to fortify tender turns against the Gallic frivolities to follow. At Folkestone, passengers board a reserved veranda deck on the Sealink cross-channel ferry. In 90 minutes passengers are ashore at the great French port of Boulogne...
...balding, staccato-voiced multimillionaire-an adviser to statesmen, head of a transatlantic food conglomerate and a director of three great European banking houses. With a French wife and two children in Paris, and an openly acknowledged mistress. Lady Annabel Birley, and two children in London, he lives a heady cross-Channel version of Captain's Paradise. Sir James Michael Goldsmith, 44, juggles all this and just about everything else with the aplomb of a crack gambler -which he also is. His latest gamble, to become an international press lord...