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...gyascutus (stone-eating variety) resembles the prock, or sidehill sauger, insofar as its telescopic legs enable it to graze easily on steep hillsides; it is unrelated, however, to the tree squeak and swamp gaboon (both offshoots of the lowly whangdoodle group), but it does claim a sort of Pilgrim kinship to the English slithy toves and borogoves...
...Stevenson visit. No politics had been discussed, said Johnson, and as far as he was concerned none were going to be. The visit had absolutely no relationship to any political situation arising from Eisenhower's illness. As a heart-attack victim himself, Johnson said, he felt a certain kinship toward Ike; besides, he considered the President a close personal friend. As for exerting his influence in the Senate on behalf of any candidate, Johnson said: "I can't turn the Senate into a nominating convention ... I wouldn't make precinct captains out of the Senators even...
...Kinship in Bronze...
...British Sculptor Butler's kinship with a Danish Bronze Age craftsman, see cuts...
Cyprus is different. The majority of its people (400,000) share the Greek language and religion, and feel a far closer kinship with the nearby Greeks than they do with their rulers in distant Great Britain. Bearded Archbishop Makarios has been leading an agitation for enosis (union) with Greece. The 100,000 Turks on the isle prefer British to Greek rule. As for the British, who have made Cyprus their Middle East bastion since evacuating Suez, Churchill's government last year announced that Britain would never leave Cyprus...