Word: edens
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...Crimson linksters returned yesterday from an idyllic spring trip to Florida and the Eden-like environs of Flagler College and proceeded to win their first match of the regular season, nipping Tufts this afternoon by two strokes over the Stow Acres golf course...
...been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named to the post in 1935, Owen got the job partly by default: Healey apparently felt that the demanding Exchequer post, during Britain's financial crisis, is a better steppingstone to No. 10 Downing than the old glamour slot at the Foreign Office, which in Britain's present position...
...novel Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy imagines the Lord leading white people to North America and bestowing that Eden on them with only one strange injunction: There are some people in a place called Africa. Be careful that you don't enslave them. Otherwise ... But one day in 1619, a Dutch frigate landed at Jamestown, Va., and traded 20 black Africans for food and supplies. That was the beginning...
...with unemployment rates below the national average. Says one of the Senate Public Works Committee staffers who drafted the legislation: "It was a political necessity. You can't have all the money going to Newark. The Congressman from Scarsdale wants a cut too." Outgoing Assistant Commerce Secretary John Eden, who is charged with administering the program, calls the 30% requirement "an absolute embarrassment. We gave money to places that didn't need it." Greenwich, Conn., for example, a wealthy suburban community where the per capita income is $8,300 (compared with a national average of $5,850), received...
Died. Anthony Eden, 79, former British Prime Minister (1955-57) and Foreign Secretary; in Alvediston, England (see THE WORLD...