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LOCAL CRAFT WORK. Since such items are normally not heavily taxed in the country of origin, they are usually not a bargain at the airport. Nevertheless, anyone who forgot to get something for Aunt Minnie can airport-shop for Indian applique work in Panama ($8), Welsh tapestry cloth in London ($7), Eskimo carvings in Montreal and local indigo-printed cloth in Nairobi ($10). Also available at some duty-free shops: locally produced canned delicacies...
Born of a Jewish Alsatian father and a British mother of Welsh-Irish descent, he spoke four languages at five...
...There was no shortage of flowers or balloons or big names, such as Princess Grace of Monaco, Ringo Starr, Michael Caine and Raquel Welch (whose cast on her recently broken wrist was quickly loaded with autographs). And there were plenty of little names, as well-including an impressive Welsh choir made up of five of Burton's brothers and three of his sisters, plus their spouses...
...number of children with a calcium deficiency to increase from 13% of the primary school population to 34%. Some school administrators announced that they would pay for free milk out of local property taxes, but Mrs. Thatcher put through a bill making this illegal. Even then, the poor Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil went on distributing free milk because, as School Councilor Bryn Watkins said, "we know all about malnutrition, rickets and TB here." That revolt ended when local officials were notified that they would be personally liable for the milk bills of $5,200 a term...
...more public form of expression. Although this transition did not apparently provide Thomas with the necessary artistic or existential answers (he died of drink several months after he completed the play), his own inner suffering fails to surface in this tender and humorous description of a small Welsh town...