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...refer to as the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche (The Sleeve). According to the timetable laid out in a government White Paper, on Nov. 15 Britain and France will sign a treaty committing the two nations to support the construction of a 32-mile tunnel between the Kentish village of Cheriton and Fréthun near Calais. Construction of "the chunnel," as it has been unfortunately dubbed by Britons, is expected to start within 18 months. Estimated cost: $2.1 billion. By 1980, if all goes well, sleek, fast trains will be whisking passengers between London and Paris...
Unlike Wilson, a clever, sharp-tongued and very partisan politician, Heath usually arouses little more than yawns. The conservative squirearchy, which still dominates much of Tory politics, is not particularly delighted that their leader is a Kentish carpenter's son who got through Balliol College on an organ scholarship. Nor does Heath's modest background win him friends in working-class districts-not when the single, silver-haired politician is known to be devoted to music and a 34-ft. sloop he races with public-school friends...
...Game is a documentary about nuclear war and a small Kentish town. It was commissioned by the BBC and promptly banned by the BBC after a first screening. It was, the BBC explained, too effective...
...bombing of London; it is some slight compensation for the "dead weight on my life never to have known the dangers of the last war and never to have discovered whether I am a hero or a coward." When it appears that his wife will have to evacuate their Kentish country house, he advises her to load their Buick with two things: her jewels and his diaries. The Battle of Britain inspires unashamed pride: "I have always loved England. Now I am in love with England. What a people! What a chance! And the chance that we shall...
...week's wash hung out to dry in the fitful Monday sunshine, the good ladies of Kentish Town, London, stepped out for their afternoon bingo game. As one bunch of Mums passed a blue truck parked in a side street, a voice cried out: "Lady, lady, will you phone the police? We are tied up in here." "Ah, you're having us on," replied Maude Smyth, 50, the archetype of English womanhood, from home perm to sensible walking shoes. "Truly, lady," came the very English reply from inside, "if you look through the crack...