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...toast from the 13th Earl of Gurney: "To England, this teeming womb of privilege." His luncheon companions, each a member of the House of Lords, raise their glasses in solemn salute. Later, at home, his manservant Tucker (Arthur Lowe) offers the earl (Harry Andrews) his evening whisky and a selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing...
...actually pulling their tails. Desert-wise oldtimers in the sun-parched Nullarbor, however, were not convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...
...once again, for whatever feeble aid that might give the people of Southeast Asia (and the other Third World peoples who are candidates for Vietnamization). The next time we probably won't be able to do it so easily, to make it so easy on ourselves. H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, told the last Faculty meeting of last year "The Faculty was forced into a quick decision about grades this Spring, Now a majority of students are neither taking exams nor doing political work. I hope we learn from our sad experience not to make...
...tempted to say the old meetings were lovely," H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, said in June. "They had the air of a gentleman's club, whereas now it's more like a parliament...
Governor Kirk, who with Gurney hatched the scheme to oust Cramer from his power perch in the state party, will not have the time or the inclination to resume the feud. The flamboyant Kirk will be fully occupied in trying to win a second four-year term for himself. To Kirk's consternation, Millionaire Druggist Jack Eckerd, an ardent Nixon supporter whose ideological bent is fully as conservative as Kirk's, got enough votes to compel a runoff. In Florida, incumbents who fail to win renomination by getting the necessary 50% of the initial primary vote usually lose...