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British governors have always lived in isolated splendor. In Salisbury last week, Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs had plenty of isolation, but it was not altogether splendid. On orders of Prime Minister Ian Smith, all phone lines to Sir Humphrey's official residence were cut. Then, in rapid succession, his armed police guard was withdrawn, his blue-tarbooshed honor guards tossed their bedrolls into a police truck and were driven away, and his butlers, gardeners, cooks and maids disappeared. His chauffeur even drove off with his official Rolls-Royce...
...apartment, at least as I saw it that rainy Saturday afternoon, was not unusual. Hot tea boiled on the stove in the kitchen. Japanese sengai paintings hung on the walls, and jars of candy lay around everywhere. Miss P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, lived here, in simple splendor of her position as Radcliffe's "writer in residence." But only a few clues to this fact caught...
Though the details vary with the teller, the tale is not new. The prince himself has recounted his grisly story in two books, in one of which (Lost Splendor) he clearly suggests that Rasputin went to the palace because "he had long wished to meet my wife," who was actually in the Crimea at the time. But the book does not specifically spell out a "sexual atmosphere" in the conspiracy, and under New York privacy law, public media become liable for damages whenever they fictionalize historic facts about living persons without their written consent. The burden, though...
...nothing at all to do in the immediate vicinity of Avenue Louis Pasteur: once in the middle of a grassy field, the six original buildings now sit in the midst of some of the city's most depressing blocks. True, they are only a few minutes from Brookline's splendor, but the proximity of dreary Roxbury is much more evident. If you make loud enough inquiries, you will find you can use such facilities of the other-side-of-the-river as Lamont, Widener, Holyoke Center, and the IAB pool. You will have to inquire, however, since the School itself...
Perched in remote splendor on a 7,300-ft. mesa between New Mexico's Jemez Mountains and the Pojoaque Valley, Los Alamos has neither rich nor poor among its 15,000 inhabitants...