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During that "glorious time of great too much," as Poet Leigh Hunt described an English Christmas, the groaning board of the rich and titled is customarily supplied by a unique emporium named Fortnum & Mason Ltd. Fortnum's is the world's only grocery with wall-to-wall carpeting, chandeliers and morning-coated clerks, who preside over stacks of specialty foods that can quickly run a grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar...
Bloch volunteered that Jacques Barzun's criticism of scientists for irresponsibility does not trouble him. "Science is a glorious entertainment in the best sense--all scientists are doing is amusing themselves, but in non-frivolous way," Bloch said. "This may sound irresponsible, but at least it's honest...
...That glorious occasion is what is mostly remembered about John Dale Ryan, now 48 and a four-star Air Force general who still moves with the catlike grace of a 5-ft. 10-in., 175-pound fullback. Last week President Johnson named Ryan to succeed, effective this week, General Thomas Power as head of the world's most powerful military organization-the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
Asked about his reaction to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's attempt to replace the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic convention, Farmer termed it a "glorious and inspired challenge...
...Crimson loses, however, it won't be simply out of respect for the single wing's age or its long and glorious history; Princeton's attack is as potent today as it was in the age of the drop-kick...