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Gin-Washed Shores. Back in 1841, Cook's started out as a temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance...
BRITAIN last week took the first step in a three-year conversion of its currency to the decimal system by introducing the first two new coins, the 5-new-pence piece and the 10-new-pence piece. After more than four centuries of a cumbersome system based on pounds, shillings...
The other faculty group, led by Warner Shilling, a government professor, has said that it will make no concessions to the demonstrators. One faculty member reported that Shilling said at a meeting last night, "Either Rudd goes or I go."
Shilling is faculty leader of a group of several hundred conservative students, many of them campus athletes, who call themselves the Majority Coalition.
With Western clothes on, the Masai may lose their lucrative business of posing for camera-carrying tourists for a 1-shilling (14?) fee; they adopt a menacing pose for 2 shillings. Nyerere, who himself usually wears a Chinese-style boiler suit, does not seem to care about the tourist revenues...