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...southern Rhodesian plateau, leaving a broad ridge bisecting the country. Men began to call the broad ridge the High Veld, for it was 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level. On the High Veld was, and is, life, in a rich, tropical savanna graced with tall grass and scattered umbrella-shaped trees. Africans once proudly owned and farmed it, but a century ago they were gradually pushed down its steep sides by the white settlers...
...show much aptitude for retailing: one Rangoonese wrote his newspaper, sarcastically congratulating the government for a widely hailed increase in the production of eight items, none of which were available in the stores. Another reported being offered a lottery ticket that promised as first prize the next umbrella to become available in his local people's store...
Standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm, up to his knees in water, le grand Charles shouts: "Après le déluge...
...recent report on the anti-poverty program, the U.S. Conference of Mayors charged that lack of "coordination" has "caused serious concern among those who have worked hard to develop umbrella-type agencies at the local level"-a not-so-subtle hint that the bosses want less interference from amateurs. Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, is not about to abandon the concept of participation by the poor, not only because it is the law, but also because of his conviction that politicians and the deprived can work constructively together-as they have done successfully in Detroit, Cincinnati...
...York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...