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...trade unions, the poor and the other left-wing or vulnerable interest groups to whom British politicians had been paying increasing attention since the Second World War." It was, as Beckett notes, two members of that postwar political generation who were critical to Pinochet's arrest in London. Jack Straw, then the Home Secretary, had visited Chile as a left-wing student in the late 1960s. And Prime Minister Tony Blair, while stressing that the extradition question would be decided solely on legal grounds, found Pinochet "unspeakable" and Allende a "hero." Pinochet liked to say that no blade of grass...
...system that resulted in a lot of people feeling they had drawn th short straw,” says Fox, now secretary of the Faculty...
...Peter J. Gomes eyed the scorpion bowl in front of him, stuck the foot-long straw between his lips, sipped a bit of the potent punch, paused and then pronounced, “It tastes like orange juice!” While the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals chowed down on chicken fried rice and drank deeply from the Kong’s “communal cup,” I, along with my classmates in Religion 1513, observed...
DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, plainspoken golf great known for his straw hat and smooth swing, called the "sweetest" in the game; in Hot Springs, Va. Slammin' Sam, as he was dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events (17 of them after he had turned 40), including three PGA championships, three Masters and a British Open. "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls," said fellow pro John Schlee, "is like watching a fish practice swimming...
...namesakes are over the door. The past also saw a prosperous soda business, and barrels of coke syrup were stored in the basement, alongside other essential philtres. A new fountain was installed in 1908, the first soda shop in the Square. But the owners made little concession to the straw-sucking customers, for no stools stood in front of the fountain, and soda and candy were primarily a sideline. Two years ago, the prescription business was so overwhelming that the fountain was forfeited. Billings and Stover became apothecaries in the strict sense of the word...