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...tides, the great surge of water spills over the embankments of the Thames River and sweeps across dozens of square miles of London, endangering countless thousands of people. More than a quarter of a million homes, offices and factories in such low-lying areas as Westminster, Hammersmith, Lambeth and Southwark are inundated. In the streets, thousands of cars are left stranded. In central London, the underground is paralyzed, bridges and tunnels are closed. Hospitals struggle valiantly to maintain services, their task made all the more difficult by power blackouts, loss of telephone service, contamination of the water supply...
...Church Times, England's leading Anglican publication, praised Coggan as a man of "true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities...
...table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody likely...
Even by the unfettered standards of Britain's Anglican hierarchy, the Bishop of Southwark is known as a bold and outspoken churchman. In addition to sponsoring a host of adventurous urban missions, the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood has over the years defended homosexuals, denounced Anglican policy on divorce as cowardly, told ribald stories in public and revealed the drinking habits of his fellow clerics in a book called The Compleat Imbiber...
Caine wears those early years like tattoos. He grew up in Southwark, in the part of London called Elephant and Castle, after a pub that was there long ago. From childhood he wanted out. "To be a Cockney is, well, like what the Negroes complain about in America," he says. "We're always sweeping the streets, washing the floors, operating lifts. The thing is that the Negro in America is militant about improving his position. But not the Cockney. I'm militant about improving my position, but I never had the backing of any of the others. When...