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...stocks, bonds and mutual funds, financial advisers are now nudging clients toward such exotic new fare as zero-coupon bonds, seven-day bank C.D.s, and brokerage-house deposit certificates. With such a variety to choose from, even professionals are befuddled. Says Gary Strum, a vice president at the E.F. Mutton investment firm: "You need an M.B.A. degree to understand what the banks and institutions are offering nowadays...
...enthusiastically outlines a new road system throughout the islands: incredibly, there is now a total of only some eight miles of roadway in the entire colony. There are proposals for expanding the crude wool industry to include knitting mills and building abattoirs for the Falklands' unutilized cattle and mutton (some 23,000 sheep carcasses are thrown away each year because of a lack of markets). Some islanders also hope to open up new grazing lands, market such island delicacies as upland geese, sea trout, salmon and crabs, and develop the Falklands' seaweed beds...
...British soldiers, who know perfectly well why they were sent there, have been given tender care by the Port San Carlos citizens while awaiting orders to move out. Falklanders are generous enough to offer the troops mutton broth, but are probably considerate enough not to offer them sheep's brains fritters, an island specialty and clearly an acquired taste. There was a widely distributed picture in Britain of Regimental Sergeant Major Laurie Ashbridge sipping from a mug of hot tea handed him by some smiling San Carlos women and children, shown leaning on a fence. When Ashbridge...
...TIME these three spend together leads to their violent demise is revealed through the tribunal. The judge, played by Josh Mutton, develops the scenario through questioning various characters. None of the witness roles requires much depth, and each is adequately presented. Mutton shows a dutiful judge whose concern for preserving the peace condones the brusqueness of the soldiers, the matter-of-factness of the doctors...
...White House echo with music almost every day and night, as visiting choirs take turns singing for the huge crowds that walk in awed silence through the candlelit state rooms. Musty portraits of Presidents from Christmases past have been garlanded with evergreens: even Chester Arthur with his mutton chops got an injection of cheer...