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...dubbed the "sincerity box" by the press. Unlike Foot, she rarely campaigned on the streets, but swirled efficiently through high-tech plants, bakeries, farms and wool mills. At each stop, she took an obsessive interest in what was shown her, asking in detail how thermostats were made at a Tarka Controls factory in Inverness, discussing the fine points of beer with workers at Robinson's Unicorn Brewery in Stockport...
Entrepreneur Beatrice Tarka was commuting between France and California every month and finding the websites on which she booked her flights totally frustrating. So she decided to start her own. The result, mobissimo.com may turn out to be the Google of travel searches: a lightning-fast way to comparison-shop among all the booking services. No selling. No scams. No charge...
...federal government bitterly admits that it has come out second best in the war of words. Nigerian Minister of Transport Joseph Tarka last week took pains to set one matter straight. "The Western press printed many pictures of the so-called rats sold in African markets for human consumption," he said. "I can tell you that the so-called rat is a real delicacy in our part of the world, and I'd rather eat your so-called rats than your damned frog's legs." Gowon, who has recently begun reading books about the American Civil War, seems resigned...
...York. In the Polacks, frugal tobacco farmers who have turned the supposedly useless valley into a gold mine, he finds many new things, new inspiration, new power, and, incidentally, a new love in Anna Sten who will make a good wife because she can "work like two womans." Tarka finds himself in the mood to write the following note. "Not like snow. Very sorry. Not like Connecticut. Me go. Very sorry. Tarka...
...Tarka goes, leaving the big house empty for Cooper and Sten to utilize in falling in love. When Cooper's wife returns the harm is already done. There is a surprising tragic end which we wont spoil...