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From the first, Phillis showed no nostalgia for her native continent. One of her earliest poems expressed her gratitude that she had been snatched away...
...erect, blue-eyed Queen, who will celebrate her 67th birthday this week, was drilled from earliest childhood in the three tenets of monarchy as defined by Queen Victoria: protocol, public service and duty. The royal motto: Je main-tiendrai (I shall maintain). Juliana studied law, literature, economics and Islamic history at Leiden University. Queen since 1948, she has kept extremely well informed about Dutch and world affairs and enjoys close relations with Socialist Premier Joop den Uyl. "Her understanding of her task," the Premier has observed, "has won the Dutch monarchy a new and acceptable tenure in our modern democracy...
...could help hold back flood waters has been delayed by government red tape and is opposed by environmentalists and by farmers whose land might be flooded. Even if the project were to be approved, residents of Minot are likely to spend several more years warily watching the water. The earliest the dam could be completed...
...themselves as the Bodies, Ourselves group) are married and many have children. "Statements like not wanting to be a woman, not wanting to have any of the tradition attributes of women--like being able to have children--now seem a little superficial," Pamela C. Berger, one of the earliest members of the collective, says. "But people's choices now about child-bearing are a lot more reasoned. There are choices now; you don't have the kind of feeling that you are expected to have children and raise a family...
...film, of course, deals with the earliest weeks after Watergate and fails to recover any of the uncertainty and darkness of that time. The excerpts of TV appearances by Nixon, Agnew, Kleindienst, and other Humpty Dumpties about to fall are simply funny; their straight-faced optimism and flat denials sound ludicrous. The power to inspire fear and loathing has gone out of these men. So Woodward and Bernstein seem to be working against paper tigers that we know don't stand a chance. This curious impression is strengthened by the fact that the "bad" characters appear only on TV news...