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...have to tell you," Reagan goes on, "Queen Elizabeth is a most charming, down-to-earth person. It didn't surprise me a bit to hear how she handled that intruder. Incidentally, she's a very good rider." When the two of them rode near Windsor Castle, he says, it was "not like in the parades where it has to be traditional sidesaddle. It is called the forward seat, the modern riding, and you knew that she was in charge of the animal...
...glowworm rode straight into controversy. He covered the Cuban revolution in 1895 as a journalist, fought at the Khyber Pass, and joined the last great cavalry charge in British history with Kitchener in the Sudan. Captured by Boers in South Africa, Winston was confined to a prison camp. His escape was neoclassic Churchill. He used a route fellow officers had worked out, but went alone. He had read his Nelson carefully. The admiral advised that victory depended on being there a quarter of an hour before the other fellows...
...days after the bombing, another detachment of Blues and Royals rode out as usual for the mounting of the guard, bearing the tattered standard of their comrades. As they approached the blackened spot where the car had exploded, the men on horseback saluted the fallen with upraised swords. It was a typically British display of 2 grit. Prime Minister Thatcher visited wounded members of the Green Jackets in London's St. Mary's Hospital. She moved from bed to bed and stopped to console Gillian Ward, 22, whose husband David, a clarinet player, lay heavily bandaged. Said Thatcher...
...acceptance of your theories on "negative social pressure." Just last night in Quincy House, I was sitting with a group of about eight guys when this really ugly girl walks up to the salad bar. At first a few of the guys were just making the normal sack and rode jokes, but then one of my brighter friends made a good point, which he properly attributed to you "What we need," he said, "is some negative social pressure to get these grotesque women out of here." Most of us are of the opinion that it could work...
...street-savvy Montuoro, 48, is a former construction worker who in the past has been convicted of firearms and narcotics charges. Fifteen years before he rode to the 65th floor of the World Trade Center to meet with lottery officials, he was 80 ft. below ground, blasting the foundation hole for that very same building. Montuoro does not want to forsake his hardscrabble heritage. He plans to remain in The Bronx ("If the people in my neighborhood were good enough to have me when I was poor, they'll be good enough to have me when...