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...known that Sir Winston Churchill suffered a slight stroke,* and that it was followed by one mild relapse. But, leaving his Chartwell home last week, he posed cheerfully for photographers, and waddled unaided to his car. pausing on the way to admire a lime tree in the yard. Beside him on the car seat, in token of the busy days ahead, lay a box of black cigars. He headed for Chequers, Britain's country retreat for its prime ministers, which he does not like as well as Chartwell, though it is closer to the pulse of things. There...
...restorers since the 16th century, the professor found that St. Bartholomew's sleeve, before a dark, bilious green, was indeed a dark azure blue. That was just the beginning. On Judas' blue tunic, ancient Arabic lettering appeared in gold; Christ's robe changed from a dirty lime color to vermilion, his mantle became bluer, its folds draped more gracefully. The dingy tablecloth lost its tattletale grey, and in the background, the blue waters of a cool lake took shape...
...over and the last of 30,000 egg rollers had departed in an April drizzle, the gardeners began a cleanup job that may take two weeks. Surveying the mess, Chief Gardener Robert Redmond was philosophic. After all, he said, "egg shell has a certain amount of lime...
Great Expectations. In Douai, France, police who arrested Accountant Théophile Dieux, 60, for stealing two bricks from a building under construction, followed him home, found his basement stuffed with bricks, timber, nails, iron bars, flooring, window frames, lime, paint, nuts & bolts, heard him explain that he had spent the last 32 years gathering items on his way home from work in order to build a country house, but the process had been so slow that the tools he stole 20 years ago to do the job are now completely rusted away...
...General's Wench has a happy ending. Sir John arrives at the whipping post with his usual ploof. The lawyer falls through a trap door; his accomplice is dropped into a pit of lime. There was "an awful sizzling as Alfy began to cook...