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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the sun poked through the haze above Mayfair just after the "elevenses" tea break and just before the lunch break. All work on a Curzon Street building stopped as the construction gang peeled off shirts and spread-eagled across the masonry for a sun tan. On English docks from Liverpool to Southampton, 14-man gangs of stevedores can be found idly following the forklift trucks that replaced them. When a British company proposed to check up on workers who had been out sick more than 25 times a year for three years or more in succession...
...garde-à-vous, and a thin line of civilians and dignitaries cheered and waved the Tricolor. But then things came apart. The crowds that lined Avenue 13 on De Gaulle's motorcade route were screaming for freedom, carrying banners demanding "Independence totale," "Vive la liberte," and in English, "French, go home." When the motorcade had passed, the demonstrators started throwing rocks at the legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds of steel-helmeted troops and cops into the streets, and forcing De Gaulle to restrict...
...Ketos in Greek means "sea monster" or "sea dragon"; not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale...
They are each by an English writer, and the English have excelled at this kind of thing since Doyle, Buchan and Oppenheim foiled the foreign malefactors. But something has happened to the genre since those simple times when everybody knew who the enemy was. Eric Ambler led a school during the United Front period of the '30s with wonderfully atmosphered thrillers in which the heroes, or their allies, were Soviet security...
...knows how many millions of Potter books have circled the world, but there are Peter Rabbits in many languages from Latin to Welsh, and the book still sells 40,000 copies annually in the U.S. Now, to mark the centenary of the author's birth, her English publishers have issued the massive private Journal that Beatrix kept from 1881, when she was 15, until...