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...rising engine and pylon, possibly trailing yards of metal "spaghetti," apparently tore through the skin of the whig. When the engine flew off, it carried away the pumps for one of the plane's three hydraulic systems. The engine may also have cut through hydraulic lines in the front of the wing. In either case, fluid necessary to maintain pressure on controls spilled out. The leading-edge flaps that were extended from the front of the whig to supply extra lift on takeoff may have been struck and damaged by the engine. Or the lack of hydraulic pressure...
Better by far is the Tung Fang (meaning Eastern) Hotel hi Canton, China's southernmost big city, the commonest point of entry and sole destination of many Foreign Friends. The Tung Fang is a bustling, 2,000-room place with a new air-conditioned whig. The rooms ($12.50 for a double) are larger, more comfortably furnished, mattressed and ant-less. At the Tung Fang it is even possible to obtain a few ice cubes, and the laundry service is Chinese-immaculate and cheap (a shut well ironed for about 50). The hotel has also recognized...
Often the series succeeds despite itself. The great Whig country houses have never looked grander, and it is almost worth the wait to see the enormous chair on which Edward VII weighed his celebrated guests at Sandringham. His great delight was to weigh them again when they left, after his seven-course lunches and twelve-course dinners, and see how many pounds he had put on them. The good moments aside, Royal Heritage is a well-meaning failure, proof that the British, who usually do these things so well, can, on occasion, also stumble and fall...
...House of Commons, the Whig opposition is led by Edmund Burke, 47, an Irishman who has become America's most eloquent defender, and Charles James Fox, 27, a witty, rakish aristocrat who is serious about only one thing, politics. In the House of Lords, the Whig leader is the Marquis of Rockingham, who is given credit for decency and honesty but is not an effective politician. In both houses, the opposition can count on about one-third of the vote. Its speakers have opposed the King's policy almost every day during the debates of the last session...
...million American trade were earlier among the most influential opponents of the war, but so far the hostilities have done relatively little harm, since British businessmen have found new customers in Russia, Spain and Italy for Birmingham steel, Manchester cotton and Yorkshire woolens. They seem largely unaware of Whig estimates that the fighting will cost roughly ?10 million a year (with the national debt already something like ?130 million). As for the press, with a combined readership of perhaps 400,000 out of a population of 8.7 million, it has less influence than it would like to believe...