Word: dorset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dorset, England...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, the bulk of the London reporting came from Charles Champlin. But it was natural for the London bureau chief to add a few words about the church's role in today's morally troubled Britain. Elson also traveled down to a little village in Dorset, where in a book-lined study that looked like a stage setting for Trollope, he had an engaging interview with the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. Son John read his father's file, then relaxed: "He's a good reporter-as a matter of fact...
...embassy in Kabul comes an urgent State Department order to locate Ellen Jaspar, a Bryn Mawr junior who has run off and married an Afghan engineer named Nazrullah. Thirteen months have passed since Ellen had last written her parents back home in Dorset, Pa. The task of finding the missing girl falls to Mark Miller, a junior embassy officer fluent in Pashto, the native language...
...then at Mark. The nomad leader does not hesitate to turn all three out into the desert but kindly sends along his young daughter to keep Mark's bedroll warm. At last this motley caravan reaches safety; Stiglitz is arrested, and Ellen is sent back home to Dorset...
...more savagely than the Continent. Some 95,000 miles of highways were completely out of service. Eight-foot drifts blocked the main road from London to Portsmouth, and near Weymouth, belated rescuers dug down to a snow-buried car, found two dead and three nearly smothered travelers. Helicopters in Dorset saved 71 trapped bus passengers, including a month-old baby sheltered in a cardboard box. Asian Gur kha troops were called out from army camps to rescue stranded old-age pensioners in Wiltshire...