Word: eden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastward in Eden...
...Longtime statesman, Eton-&-Oxford-trained Robert Cecil, 54, is better known as Viscount Cranborne (the honorary title he used until he succeeded his father as the Marquess of Salisbury ten months ago). He resigned as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (along with his boss Anthony Eden) in protest against appeasement of Italy in 1938. Two years later he returned to office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs...
Palomar Mountain is more pleasant than most. The dormitory (called the "Monastery") is pleasant too. For day-sleeping astronomers, the bedrooms have soundproofed walls and doors and black window shades. The only intruders in this astronomical Eden are the woodpeckers that like to drill away at the Monastery's copper roof...
...brilliantly widened the Economist's horizon. Its best long leaders on world problems and news, written in his own longhand, are a clear synthesis of political and economic reasoning that often echoes in Parliament. Many an M.P. would be tongue-tied if he could not say, as Anthony Eden said last week, "I saw . . . by the Economist. . . ." ("Soft underbelly of Europe" was Crowther's phrase before it was Churchill...
...from her ivory hower in the Garden Street Eden, Mona N. Lowe '50 peered out from behind her tortoise-shell spectacles and waggled a slide rule provocatively at the CRIMSON reporter. "Men, men all over the place. Men by the dozen, hounding me for my reading notes. I never had so damn much fun in may life," she shrieked...