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A consumer’s guide to fabrics and finishes

... particular fibre content and the consumer should check the fibre content and cleaning instructions before purchase. Generally speaking, names originally applied to wool or cotton are still applied to fabrics made of staple fibres; names originally applied ...

Ground-cover plants

... plants. In towns these could have a degree of formality, so that something in the shape of the leaf or the habit of the plant speaks of civilization rather than of moor or hedgerow. Choysia temata is such a plant, wonderfully green and glossy with scented ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 897 | Page: 76 | Tags: none

TRAVEL DAVID TENNANT Optimistic outlook

... so that although spare cash for holidays was not as plentiful as most would have liked it did increase; and, relatively speaking, holidays abroad became better value. Though in the early summer bookings were poor (as a nation we are reluctant to take ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1357 | Page: 60 | Tags: none

THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Astronomical facts and fallacies

... little about astronomy. Unconventional ideas are not dead (for instance, the Flat Earth Society still exists!) but, generally speaking, even the self-confessed non-scientist knows the basic facts. Nevertheless some misconceptions persist Probably the most ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1810 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

Canada’s crisis of identity

... need to speak fluent French for promotion do not like having to study and take an exam 20 years or more after they have taken the last one. Many local townships resent paying taxes to build a French-language school to cater to a small French-speaking community ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2636 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

Backwards and forwards

... free Press; s the newspapers I can’t stand.” The actress is handicapped by the need for her thoughts to be overheard, by speaking between the lines, as it were: an old notion that here does not come off very welL John Thaw, with a resolute Australian ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1486 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

the problem of the large monumental composition. As Rothenstein indicates, these compositions were expected of ..

... of this century what Watts was to the eminent Victorians. Yet, like Watts’s portraits, these are often more convincing as speaking likenesses than they are as fully-realized works of art What gives them life is precisely the fact that they are unresolved ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 747 | Page: 71 | Tags: none

been widened to cover a variety of fibre contents. For instance, the term ‘lawn’ was originally applied to a ..

... particular fibre content and the consumer should check the fibre content and cleaning instructions before purchase. Generally speaking, names originally applied to wool or cotton are still applied to fabrics made of staple fibres; names originally applied ...

BIRTHSMARRIAGES&DEATHS FISH Sid of dear husband taken away suddenly January 1st words heal heartache stop a ..

... Daughter Hath Son George God bless grandad Beverly Shane USA ROBB Edward Our dear dad and grandad passed away January 2nd 1968 We speak your name with love and pride Smiling through tears we cannot hide With aching hearts we whisper low God bless you dad and ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1979
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3250 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

arel7l forB COMMANDING LEAD FOR HUSSIES

... to change when among cads so 1101 181 19 We cast off about a pound 23 It follows Torn back without and dodged paying (7) speaking (51 20 Painter got the same variety 26 It gives on. the run-around in to sit back inside 171 banking circles 141 22 tt is ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1979
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1576 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

COST OF THE “TROUBLES”

... Wolff shipyard and former chairman of Derry -Development Commission. Rt. Rev. Dr. Robert Eames, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, speaking at the Raphoe Synod, said that the only justification for any discussion on Irish unity today was if it would be seen to ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1979
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 489 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

2 Daily Posh Tuesday January 1979 Daily Post and radio briefing GRANADA HTV 955 Paddington 100 Jackanory with ..

... Time 50 60 News 630 The 27-Year Itch 70 News 75 The Archers 7-20 All Life’s Miracle 80 and the Shadow 8-45 Scientifically Speaking 930 Kaleidoscope 100 News 1030 Got to Joking 110 Book at Bedtime 1115 Financial World Tonight 1130 Unforgetabies 120 News ...