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Following the Prime Minister's release from the Hadassah Medical Center, and after a brief rest period at his home, he resumed his regular daily duties, with the full approval of the two physicians who treated him, Professor Marvin Gottesman and Professor Sylvan Lavie. The story in your report, that the Prime Minister has to put in a shorter working day, or is working less hours, is incorrect...
...mecca for alfresco lunchers and outdoor shows by dance and theater groups, the square has two indoor theaters, three restaurants, a cosmopolitan food fair, an exhibition hall and an outdoor ice-or roller-skating rink. From the eastern end of the square, zigzagging tiers of steps lead through a sylvan setting to the government office building, which has rooftop pools and waterfalls tumbling over large picture windows. The building's 127,000 sq. ft. of open office space (for only 900 workers) is separated according to function by low dividers and jungles of greenery...
After an hour, the royals leave the crowd for tea in their crown-topped pavilion. At last, guests begin to wander about the 39 sylvan acres in the heart of London and marvel at the elegance of the splendidly carpeted "cloakroom" facilities. By the curving lake they search for the celebrated flamingos, and in the scalpel-trimmed rose garden compare the Queen's blooms with their own in Surrey...
Indeed, the men voluntarily gave up two weeks of their vacation for the trip to Dartmouth without their wives and children. After 14 days of nonstop classes, plus evenings devoted to Spanish movies, music and Spanish bingo games, some of the New Yorkers found their enthusiasm for sylvan New England dwindling. I've had enough of rural America," said Officer David Weaver, 36. Added Officer Marino Cesarini, 33: "It's like living in a plastic bubble up here. They may have only one murder in 100 years...
...author observes that "there was very little need for such a muezzin in Georgian London." Disagreeing with a view that D.H. Lawrence celebrated sex alfresco while Americans kept to bedrooms, the doctor notes the abundance of contraceptives in brooks and rivers and concludes that "if Americans are not sylvan cohabitors, they are at least riparian." On Dr. William Carlos Williams, who Ober believes had a block against rewriting: "As a doctor, Williams may have buried his mistakes; as a poet, he published them." On the importance of wit and libertinism at the court of Charles II: "Men rose by their...