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...often as we can. Apart from the charming natural environment and the crystal-clear sea, beautiful memories of precious moments with my family tie me to that place. Our house is in the countryside, and once we get there, it's like being on a desert island???we can enjoy all the tranquillity of the environment and relax. And when we feel like it, we can go to the tiny bars on the beach or do a little shopping at the market of Sant Francesc (I always find interesting things there) or even visit the "Hippie" market, which is always...
...charming. He addressed 60,000 at Shea Stadium in four of the seven languages he speaks with facility? English, Spanish, Italian and of course, Polish (French, Latin and German are the other three) and drew applause by simply pronouncing place names with theatrical timing, greeting the crowds "from Long Island??? and New Jersey? and Connecticut [pronouncing all three c's]? and [long pause] Broke-leen...
...through more than 20 years of self-education and training programs, he learned to master topics like atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island???but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...
PITCAIRN'S ISLAND???Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall?Little, Brown...
...When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick?the fashionable North Shore of Long Island???friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event still is the Republican clambake on the Davison estate...