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Chicken Tax. Holder of a hereditary fief granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1565, she kept her latter-day serfs in most agreeable thrall. "What was good enough for William the Conqueror is good enough for us!" was the grande dame's battle cry against the incursions of modernity. As a result of her efforts, the farmers and fisherman of Sark pay not a farthing of British income taxes; neither are they plagued by automobiles, transistor radios and unemployment...
...York Yacht Club, holder of the Cup, is not scheduled to pick an American defender until final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...
Died. Adelle Davis, 70, spunky preacher of the good-eating gospel; of bone cancer; in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Trained as a dietitian and holder of a master's degree in biochemistry, Davis contended that improper diet is the cause of a broad gamut of diseases as well as such social afflictions as crime, mental illness and drug abuse. In four bestselling volumes (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit, et al.), she urged readers to shun refined grains and packaged foods, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables, unprocessed cheese and fertilized eggs, and take large doses...
Peter J. Gomes, acting minister in Memorial Church, said yesterday Williams was "the most logical person for appointment" because Williams is a clergyman, a graduate of the Divinity School and holder of one of Harvard's most prestigious chairs...
Bunting employs the principal tactic of class war, the ambush. His unsuspecting victim is an American named Mark Adams, a member of that amorphous elite loosely known as the Eastern establishment. A graduate of Princeton circa 1960 and a holder of a gentlemanly undistinguished degree from Cambridge, Adams has also served in Viet Nam as an Army officer with a certain detached distaste. Both he and his wife Marjorie, a diplomat's daughter from north-central New Jersey's horsy country, wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken...