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...long-term...governmental development projects," but fails to mention anywhere that the U.S. Government itself will be incapable of long-term planning unless the President's foreign aid bill, under scrutiny in the House at this moment, is passed. Nor does he deal thoroughly enough with perhaps the stickiest wicket in American investment abroad: precisely how the investors should go about cooperating with foreign governments...
...worst had come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
...tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat...
...Yorkshire home, gardened with her mother, stomped the moors of the 4,000-acre family estate with her father, Sir William Worsley, onetime team captain and now president of the county cricket club. And last week the Duke of Kent was all but stuck to the Worsley wicket: he proudly nipped up to Buckingham Palace with his new fiancee for a toast from the Queen to a June wedding...
Teleknight? If he keeps it up, Richard Dimbleby may well become what many British show people hope he will be: the first knight of television. He has lent his faultless, icky-wicket comments to nearly every royal occasion since World War II, including the funeral of King George VI, the wedding and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A merry, good-tempered pro, he was the BBC's first war correspondent, even broadcast from a Royal Air Force bomber on a raid over Berlin. In 1945, he was arrested in Berlin by suspicious Russian soldiers, won his freedom...