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...weather prohibits sailing, he rides Frantic, his mare, around the Isle of Wight. Last year he fell off, broke an ankle. He promptly ordered up a sedan chair and set out daily to tour the pubs like a Roman emperor, borne by two sturdy porters and accompanied by an umbrella-toting neighbor. Uffa's friends and professional competitors tend to agree with one Cowes oldtimer: "Uffa's a fine chap-a genius, none better-but, of course...
...Vice President Richard Nixon banned umbrellas, because he felt that they would have recalled the pre-World War II appeasement policies of Great Britain's umbrella-carrying Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain...
...place with such a show of overwhelming power. Flung wide across the sullen East China Sea was the mighty U.S. Seventh Fleet. Cruisers and destroyers prowled to and fro within range of Communist shore batteries. From below the horizon, five of the U.S.'s mightiest carriers flung an umbrella of jet fighters above the two scruffy little islands. Closer in. the sea was littered with transports and scurrying landing craft in the disheveled bustle of a major amphibious operation...
More pressure will probably be placed on independent unions to join the federation, but probably without effect. Healy thinks. "I see little prospect of the independents coming under the umbrella of the federation," he said. "With a change in their administration, however, the United Mine Workers might be interested in joining. As for the four operating rail-road brotherhoods, there is little possibility of their being assimilated...
...Macy & Co. and Gimbel Bros, teamed up against Lionel Corp.'s suit to stop the department stores from cutting prices on electric trains. Macy accused Lionel of discriminating against the department stores in favor of discount houses, of using department stores as "showcases and [to] provide ... an umbrella for price-cutting ..." Said Macy Attorney Donald Smiley: "Discount houses have been making a mockery of Fair Trade prices." As a result, Macy, Gimbels and other New York department stores kept right on discounting scores of Fair Trade products, and were offering a $65 Lionel train for Christmas...