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Decontrol of restaurant prices was part of a general tendency to lift price control on food. Last month, when fish in retail stores was decontrolled and fish prices zoomed, housewives refused to buy until fishmongers stopped gouging. Grocers, pleading that last year's drought had made vegetables scarce, put...
The Lowest Dungeon. When the prayer was done, Tom gathered two witnesses, took them over to notify the bailiff, then bicycled along to file due notice of clameur with the greffe (clerk of court) and affix two five-shilling stamps. "Nothing more will be done," he told his family confidently...
In old days, when crying Haro was more frequent (Tom's is only the eighth clameur to be raised since 1900), the penalty for losing a case was severe: 24 hours' confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small...
Soon Maclean had taken the King's Shilling and been enrolled as a private in the Cameron Highlanders. But then Maclean heard rumors that the hoaxed and understaffed Foreign Office was taking steps to corral him back into the service. "Only one thing," Maclean concluded, "could save me: early...
Besides their actions on the playing field, the ruggers had a successful week off the field. Their host, the British Army, showed great hospitality is scheduling at least two cocktail parties for the Crimson, and two balls Wednesday and Saturday. The facts that females outnumbered males, 4 to 1, and...