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...back in South America, the animal has flourished in East Anglia's bogs and fens. Commercial trappers are not interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists...
...Provider. Macmillan's other emissaries fared little better. Labor Minister John Hare, sent to Africa, was told by Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa that Nigeria was not interested on any terms. Even if Britain took the Common wealth countries into the Six as full trading partners, Balewa said flatly, "there is no question of Nigeria joining. We want to protect our industries, and if we join the Market, we shall find it difficult to do so." Balewa's explanation: he feared the Common Market's ultimate goal of political federation might result in an industrial...
...Ghana, Nkrumah was privately cordial to Hare's overtures, but as soon as Hare left, Nkrumah took the platform to declare that Ghana "would almost certainly be forced to leave the sterling area to safeguard our trading position" if Britain joined...
...husband wants to race down Rabbit Run and ogle a little hare instead of the dog that...
...Among them: Abstract Expressionists Ferren, James Brooks. Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning; Sculptors David Smith and David Hare; Critics Alfred Frankfurter and Thomas Hess of Art News; Fine Arts Professors James S. Ackerman (Harvard) and Meyer Schapiro (Columbia...