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Born into a middle-class Welsh family, Heseltine studied accounting after Oxford and then went into property development and publishing, amassing a fortune worth more than (pounds)50 million. Elected to Parliament in 1966, he held various non-Cabinet posts under Edward Heath. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, she appointed Heseltine Environment Minister, and four years later moved him to Defense. A reputation for impetuosity has followed him since an episode in the Commons in 1976 when, irate over a demonstration staged by Labour M.P.s, he seized the ceremonial mace and brandished it over his head. Heseltine...
...affluent suburbanites to working mothers are paying up to $1.99 per half-gallon for milk delivered to their doorsteps. Since the Palm Beach Milk Co. opened in May with 200 customers, it has added 800 people to its routes, and it expects to tack on | 500 more this fall. Welsh Farms in Long Valley, N.J., estimates that about 25% of its business now comes from home delivery...
...Censorship is not the issue," said anti-Mitznademonstrator John Welsh, a graduate of HarvardMedical School. "Mitzna can have free speech, buthe does not deserve the honor that the Universityhas given...
Portuguese fishermen or Welsh hill farmers may not endorse that claim as they struggle to wrest a living from sea and soil. Like the U.S., Western Europe has its rust belt and its regions of rural poverty. Nor has Western Europe totally escaped the scourges of drugs and violence. Yet many West Europeans are not only matching Americans in material wealth, but they also believe themselves to be enjoying a better quality of life. "I don't know what America has to offer me that I haven't got already and that I would envy," says British architect Ian Grant...
...Dave Welsh knows. He's down at Reed's Beach, fishing with his father. For the umpteenth time since he worked these waters as a boy, Welsh, now 42, curses and starts reeling in his line. Nothing biting today except the horseshoe crab. Agitated, he untangles one from his line and tosses it back. He has few kind words for the crabs; the fact is, he finds inanimate objects more provocative. "Each year, you see ten or 20 articles about the crabs, but you never see any about the sandbars," he bellyaches, pointing to the tidal flats along...