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...Leavis barrage than the 2,000 scarlet-robed students of St. Andrews, who have the unusual tradition of electing someone likable and lustrous to represent them on the university's governing council. Hard by the renowned golf course, St. Andrews is known for its equitable violence of yore. Protestant Reformer George Wishart was burned there in 1546, and two months later his nemesis, David Cardinal Beaton, was hanged from the local castle window...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
Mediterranean naval base of Toulon. A towering look-alike of the Charles de Gaulle of yore, Philippe has shown many flashes of his father's courage as well, holds a Croix de guerre with palm for his World War II exploits...
...royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore...
...supporting himself in the civilian style to which he is currently unaccustomed, collecting a cool $125,000 for a network appearance with Frankie. Elvis, proudly wearing medals for good conduct and marksmanship, promised that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy sideburns...