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...travels, Stevenson shook many a hand, ate many a doughnut, seemed generally folksy despite occasional lapses into such polysyllabic gobbledygook as when, at Fergus Falls, he accused the Administration of "disingenuous dissembling" in its foreign policy...
...himself ("Athletic and amusing," said Vicki). Soon after, over cocktails at a London club, Vicki inspected two more candidates, 41-year-old Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ("charming") and Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, 52, 6th Marquess of Donegal and governor of Carrick-fergus Castle ("suave"). "I didn't know what to call them-my lord, or what," said Vicki. "They told me the correct way was to say Lord So-and-So, but in a few minutes we were calling each other by first names." That same day an application came from...
...FERGUS HORSBURGH Montreal Sir: Who else but the American schoolteacher...
...weeks ago Melinda MacLean and her children, Fergus, 9, Donald, 7, and Melinda, 2, returned from a vacation in the Balearic Islands to their apartment in Geneva, where they had been living for a year with her mother, wealthy Mrs. Melinda Dunbar of Boston and New York. Next day Mrs. MacLean packed two suitcases, loaded the children into the family's black Chevrolet, and set off to weekend at the home of a friend near Montreux, some 50 miles away. She told her mother she would be back on Sunday. The friend? Mrs. Dunbar was not sure...
...importers of British raw materials and goods cheered the devaluation of the British pound to $2.80 (see INTERNATIONAL). Prices of British goods in the U.S. had been far too high; now they began to tumble. Fergus Motors, a Manhattan importer of British cars, slashed the price of the Austin automobile from $1,595 to $1,275, trimmed all other makes 20%. Rolls-Royce dealers trimmed that $20,000 job to $15,000. Dunhill's also jumped aboard, cut British pipes and cigarette cases 20%. The prices of British wool, rubber, cocoa and other commodities from sterling areas slumped...