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Letter:

Baer Pettit
Sunday 27 December 1992 00:02 GMT
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CAL McCRYSTAL may have been talking turkey in last week's Notebook but he seems to have retrospectively elected Benjamin Franklin to the office of President of the United States. That old bird was far too wise to make a Meleagris gallopavo of himself.

Baer Pettit, London N1

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