Word: sirs
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France has claimed the island for 200 years (it is named for a chevalier who first set foot on Tromelin in 1776) and has maintained the weather service since 1953. Yet vigorous dissent to the French claim has been registered by Mauritius. 300 miles to the southeast. Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 77, insists that Tromelin "is part and parcel of our territory, and always has been.'' In fact, Mauritius' claim -dates back only to 1959. nine years before the nation won independence from Britain. Last year, after learning that France intended to cultivate the Tromelin turtles...
...DIED. Sir Terence Rattigan, 66, prolific British playwright (The Winslow Boy, Separate Tables); of cancer; in Hamilton, Bermuda. After Rattigan left Oxford to write plays, his father supported him during a trial period. Just as it ended, his comedy French Without Tears became a hit and ran for 1,039 performances in London. Rattigan's forte was, as he once said, "the play that unashamedly says nothing-except possibly that human beings are strange creatures, and worth putting on the stage, where they can be laughed at or cried over, as our pleasure takes...
...other Nobel prizewinners were among the 450 scientists, social scientists and theologians -many of a conservative stripe-who went to San Francisco for a three-day conference on "science and absolute values" sponsored by Moon's Unification Church. After an effusive introduction by Australian-born Neurophysiologist and Nobelman Sir John Eccles, Moon urged his guests, in barely understandable English, to express their beliefs fully. Housing, feeding and entertaining the academics plus their spouses for the brainy bash was costing about half a million dollars, but Moon was unperturbed. He viewed it as a way "to meet and examine...
Immediately after Harden stripped away the outer layer of paper from the package, a sealed letter--which was not opened yesterday--"on the Sacco-Vanzetti case," addressed to "Sir Horace Plunkett" tumbled...
...midsection of the plot. Her ideas began as a couple of random images: "Girl and not really sister-August." Contrary to popular belief, writing was never easy for the author of 68 books. She fretted for weeks before getting into a novel and required constant expressions of reassurance from Sir Max. "I got very tired, and I also got cross," she states at one point. "Writing has that effect, I find...