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LAST BOOKS READ: The Zap Comic version of War in the Pasture: La Vache Qui Rit meets Elsie. Deep Throated Guernsey. The I Hate to Cook Cookbook, and the New Hampshire Farmers Guide to Better Milk Production in Holsteins...
...British labor practices (TIME, Aug. 7), affected some 600 ships that were either in or on their way to Britain's 40 major ports. Exports worth millions of dollars a day to the country's fragile economy piled up on idle piers, while thousands of tons of Guernsey tomatoes, grapes from Cyprus and Australian apples rotted in the ships' holds or were destroyed. British housewives, who vividly remember the three-week dock strike of 1970, stocked up on meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. Cattle feed-lot operators worried that Britain had only a two-week supply...
Softening Grief. A year later, the Society of Compassionate Friends was formed, and since then, 20 branches have been set up from Glasgow to Guernsey. The society aims not just at softening grief but at preventing its most damaging results. Explains Stephens: "Parents who cannot share their sorrow sometimes come to reject their remaining children. Or they have another child in the hope of re-creating the one they have lost...
After making her abdication speech, Dame Sibyl retired to her comfy manor house to sulk. Her butler told callers that she was not at home. But the Dame's problems were far from solved. Guernsey's head of government, Sir William Arnold, announced that "the people of Sark must make up their own minds. Knowing Sark people as I do, I think they will wish to continue going their own way" Dame Sibyl's great-grandmother paid $14,400-for Sark in 1852. It was now beginning to look as if the Dame could not even give...
...Sark has had the privilege of self-rule since 1565, when Helier de Carteret was named Seigneur de Sark by Queen Elizabeth I. His descendants ruled until 1713, when the island was first sold, and in 1730 it was purchased by the Le Pelleys of Guernsey. Dame Sibyl's family took control by foreclosing a mortgage on the Le Pelleys...