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...power project, will evenly divide the electricity that it produces. The Washington-chartered St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. administered all seaway construction in the U.S., while Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority managed all seaway work north of the border. Industrialist James L. Duncan and Civil Servant Bennett John Roberts ran Canada's power and seaway agencies; Duluth Banker Lewis Castle and New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses were the U.S. chiefs. Because more of the work had to be done in Canada than the U.S., the Canadians will pay about 71% of the $440 million cost...
...driven to following him, dressed as a man. As a last resort, she slipped camphor in her husband's pocket on the theory that it had a debilitating effect and would diminish his ardor. It didn't. Finally, when he was 50, Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini to a frenzy of remorse. When he died in Brussels at 65 after an operation for cancer of the throat, his last words to his stepdaughter were: "Remember that your mother is a remarkable woman...
Snobility. In London, a sensitive father ran a classified ad in the Times for a "sports car, preferably foreign, wanted for weekend by respectable middle-aged civil servant to raise son's status at preparatory school where most fathers have Jaguars...
...first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically illiterate in Arabic, feels more at home culturally in a French atmosphere than in an Islamic...
Thirty years a civil servant, and ever the diplomat, 51-year-old Sir Hugh Foot, Britain's governor on Cyprus, last week turned salesman. His pitch: if the Greeks, the Turks, the Cypriots and the British themselves will all show restraint, Britain's new plan for limited self-government on the island can be made to work. Foot strolled unarmed through the tense Turkish quarter of Nicosia, appealing in person to startled Turk Cypriot shopkeepers and stallholders for calm. And to show the Greeks how ready he was to negotiate, Foot released the text of a secret offer...