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...house is well staffed with all three. Unseen on an upper floor is the dying Tinkbell, a butler before whom employers cringe, quite apart from guests. The current butler and harried man-of-all-work, Maitland (Donal Donnelly), has done five years in jail as a conscientious objector. He is a flavorsome cousin of Bernard Shaw's servants, brimming with querulous grievance...
...mineral production by opening up huge tracts of government lands for exploitation. In light of the relaxed strip mining regulations sought by President Reagan, Interior Secretary James G. Watt and the other members of the Rape America Today coalition, these developments have placed America's natural heritage in danger unseen since the days of the Dust Bowl...
...editor: "Rare books make rich men wise and wise men rich." So rich that the venerable London firm of Francis Edwards now advocates a kind of leather-bound mutual fund. For a minimum of $1,000-plus a 2% storage commission-Edwards assembles a "portfolio" of rare books, often unseen by the investor, to be sold later for profit. A typical $10,000 Edwards holding might include such items as The Journals of Captain Cook ($200), Kipling's Kim ($80) and Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director ($2,500). Clive Farahar...
...Unseen by the audience, half a dozen plainclothesmen, some armed with light antitank weapons, stood between the President and a column of tanks. South Korea's President had not forgotten that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed last October during a military parade. "Since Sadat," said one U.S. observer, "these military exercises make some folks nervous...
Unbaptized, unnamed, and as yet unseen by her father, the tiny raven-haired baby-the seventh child-was born in Gdansk, Poland, on Jan. 27. Her father, Lech Walesa, 38, was far away, interned by the Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would...