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...divorce court, says Hall, "is the only seat of British justice where invariably the parties to a case are better shod than the witnesses." Though the House of Lords periodically deplores Britain's divorce rate (about one divorce in 17 marriages), more than 20% of its own members have wound up in Splitsville...
...Communists as Premier, and 2,000 good troops commanded by Captain Kong Le support him. Both Kong Le and Souvanna insist that they do not want a Communist Laos. But Souphanouvong, a Mephistophelean-looking fellow in his sideburns and trim mustache, is a hardened Communist guerrilla. His sneaker-shod troops total 12,000 and are veterans of jungle fighting. It is obviously the winning team-and getting stronger every...
Back in Portugal, Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was all calmness and rhetoric last week in his first interview in years with a U.S. newsman, the New York Times's Benjamin Welles. Shod in high-laced boots, relaxing in a leather chair, onetime Economics Professor Salazar might have been lecturing woolly-headed students. Did he plan economic and social reforms for terror-ridden Angola? "The rhythm of implementation of programs of social advancement will not be slowed down but rather the contrary, if possible . . . It is possible we may have erred on the side of excessive caution and tolerance...
Desperately, Gilbert sawed on the reins and slashed with his whip. But Plenty Papaya bolted back to the inside. Just before hitting the barrier, horse and rider parted company. The railbirds were watching the front runners, and no one saw what happened next. But an aluminum-shod hoof or the concrete base of a rail post shattered the jockey's skull. Roy Gilbert died on the way to a hospital...
...annual festival of music and drama. As the tale of Sir William Wallace's† wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters in a ragged rendition of Scotland's own unofficial national anthem...