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...salmon. Illegal catches-the council refrained from using the word poaching-have become so heavy that in some areas they are double the legal catch. Even though the government is spending $4 million annually on a force of 245 water bailiffs to combat illegal fishing in English and Welsh rivers, the salmon may face extinction...
...director-producer-actor-author, who is 81, was raised to be a wanderer; his mother was Welsh-Irish, and his father was an Alsatian Jew who was an international speculator. John Houseman spoke four languages as a child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred...
...political figures, was deemed out of the race because of his age. Also benched was Tony Benn, 58, longtime archangel of Labor's radical left, who lost his seat in Parliament in the election. Last week's front runner was Neil Kinnock, 41, a staunch leftist whose Welsh charm has won him friends throughout the party and substantial support from the trade unions. On the moderate side, the leading contender was Roy Hattersley, 50, Home Secretary in Labor's outgoing shadow cabinet. Hattersley, unlike Kinnock, was at odds with Labor's controversial campaign manifesto, which called...
...DIEGO PADRES--Sold Chris Welsh, pitcher, to the Montreal Expos for an undisclosed amount of cash...
Lizandick (liz n 'dik) n. pl. [contemporary usage fr. Liz and Dick, often followed by exclamation point, i.e., Lizandick!] 1. Archaic. Mythic American actress and Welsh actor whose names were eternally coupled despite their celebrated uncoupling(s) 2. Aging and forever expanding histrionic duo whose sum is greater than their individual parts, and whose mutual moves are perpetually played out in public (did you hear that ~ started a limited-run revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Boston last week?). 3. Any pair of people who come together, split, come together, split, until they seem...