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...ALBAN When Chris Corbin and Jeremy King opened their latest London restaurant, St Alban, at the end of last year without even a whisper of publicity, devotees flocked. After all, this is the pair behind the Wolseley, the former car showroom on Piccadilly, which opened in 2003 yet manages to appear as if it has been around for at least a century...
...years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from Sir Garnet Wolseley who, as adjutant general of the British army, warned in 1882 that the tunnel "would be a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Last week the British House of Commons, reviewing the issue for the 36th time in 172 years, scuttled the most serious effort...
Throughout, the French have shown more enthusiasm for the tunnel idea than the British, who have tended to agree with Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 protest that this link between England and the Continent would provide "a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Although the security argument has faded into the background, skepticism among the British remains strong today. Detractors of the tunnel complain that the government has rushed ahead so quickly with the project that it has not given due consideration to alternatives, as, for example, bigger and better Hovercraft. Its proponents reply...
Though its 25,000-car annual turnout is dwarfed by the 890,000 cars produced under British Motors' five current makes (Austin, Morris, MG, Riley and Wolseley), Jaguar will give B.M.C. needed strength in the luxury market. To make the most of its new ability to sell to every pocketbook, British Motors plans to increase overall output by 1970 to 1,500,000, about what Germany's Volkswagen, the present European leader, already produces...
...white minority government. With crude oil running out at the Mozambique port of Beira (source for Rhodesia's major pipeline), Smith announced that drivers would henceforth get only three to five gallons of gas per week, according to the size of their cars. His own black Wolseley went into the garage. The worst is yet to come: by the end of the month, ration coupons will replace the "honor system," which last week allowed hundreds of white Rhodesians to top off their tanks by bribing black filling-station attendants...