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Said Scotsman Hector McNeil, a member of the British delegation: "Cauld kail het again" (Cold cabbage warmed over...
...artist. He has been miserable most of his life, and looks old before his time. The son of a Caracas furniture maker, he was a moody boy, blinded in one eye by a childhood accident, and haunted by the memory of a violin teacher mangled by a car near Hector's house. Héctor spent most of the long, monotonous days of his childhood drawing by himself-in books, on walls, on scraps of paper. Finally his father, who had once hoped to be a sculptor, decided that Hector should become an artist...
...hasty coalition of Laborites and Tories rushed to defend the wigs. Conservative Edward Percy Smith said: "Without their official wigs and gowns, [judges] look very odd and ordinary." Laborite Hector Hughes agreed: "I believe," he said, "Mr. Emrys Hughes is seeking to reduce people to dull sartorial drabness...
...Hard Way. On Mt. Rose, Nev., Robert Hector landed only five feet short of the winner in the University of Nevada Winter Carnival ski jump, despite the loss of both his skis in midair...
...Penguins. British Minister of State Hector McNeil favored putting the controversy to the International Court at the Hague. Because Chile and Argentina based their claims chiefly on proximity and occupation, the British had a good case. They had sailed the Antarctic seas since 1773, whaled there, set up a formal government for part of the disputed area in 1908, and had organized more than half the expeditions ever sent into the Antarctic. Said the Manchester Guardian confidently: "Let Latin American oratory have its fling and the penguins applaud. It should be enough for us to put our case diplomatically...