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...able to not only feed itself but also become a granary for Africa. When I reminded an Ethiopian diplomat in Cairo not long ago that Egypt, according to Herodotus, "was a gift of the Nile," he retorted, "But the Nile is the gift of Ethiopia." M. Riaz Hasan Pinner, England Bolten's Uphill Battl time reported on new White House chief of staff Josh Bolten's "recovery plan" [May 1]. The trouble is that Bolten's campaign is designed to elevate the President's poll numbers rather than solve the ugly problems the Administration has created for the country...
...John told reporters. "And yes, I'm nervous." John, who once described himself as a "male Betty Boop," reportedly gave his beloved a large heart-shaped necklace with 26 diamonds before flying to New Zealand, first stop on a global concert tour. Said John, who was born in Pinner, England: "I'm really pleased I got married in Sydney because it meant none of my relatives could be here...
...world was a middle-class Middlesex town called Pinner, where he was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. The lonely, lumpy, myopic only child of an R.A.F. squadron leader, he was too shy "to say boo to a goose." He was so out of favor with his straight-backed dad that he was forbidden to kick a soccer ball in the garden lest he wreck the rose bushes. He was refused permission to purchase mohair sweaters and Hush Puppies shoes, status gear he devoutly hoped would help him gain acceptance in the local smart set in the late '50s and early...
...Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard took the medal...
Gravely the Ministry of Home Security last week went over the heads of anxious neighbors and air raid wardens and told George Thomson of Cuckoo Hill Road, Pinner, Middlesex, that it would be perfectly all right for him to go on keeping his pet lion, Rona, in his well-fenced garden. "In view of the nature of the precautions which have been taken," ruled the Ministry, "there are no grounds for fearing that the lion is likely to escape as a result of war operations...
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