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Cook and Macmillan
The show became a great success in London after being first performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.
During one performance, Macmillan was in the theatre and Cook departed from his script and attacked him verbally.
Macmillan — according to Cook — was not particularly fond of the slurred caricature and charade of senile forgetfulness ( marked by a failure to pronounce ' Conservative Party ' coherently ) handed down on him in Cook's impersonation.
The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.
During his premiership in the early 1960s Macmillan was savagely satirised for his alleged decrepitude by the comedian Peter Cook in the stage review Beyond the Fringe.
* Cook, Chris and Sked, Alan ( editors ) Crisis and Controversy: Essays In Honour of A. J. P. Taylor, London: Macmillan Press, 1976
* British Historical Facts 1760 – 1830, by Chris Cook and John Stevenson ( The Macmillan Press 1980 )

Cook and recounting
With Private Eye riding the satire boom, Peter Cook soon took an interest and contributed two serials recounting the bizarre adventures of Sir Basil Nardly-Strobes and the Rhandi Phurr, both of which were admirably illustrated by Rushton, as was " Mrs Wilson ‘ s Diary ".
In fact while a particular case had been the starting point of the creative team that had produced the broadcast – working from a letter by the girl's parent to Robin Cook, the shadow health secretary, they denied it was meant to be a recounting of her case.

Cook and summit
A view from the summit of Mount Kaukau across Cook Strait to the Marlborough Sounds in the distance.
" Cook climbed the peak on Lizard Island to chart a course out to sea through the maze of reefs which confronted him and the island's summit has since been called ‘ Cook's Look ’.
Mount Cook Village is located near New Zealand's highest mountain, 12 kilometres south of Aoraki / Mount Cook's summit.
On 6 August 2005 former U. K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook died after collapsing with a heart attack whilst walking down from the summit of Ben Stack.

Cook and meeting
Between 1888 and 1912 a dolphin named Pelorus Jack became famous for meeting and escorting ships around the Cook Strait.
According to Paul Cook, in the few months between joining the band and meeting Spungen, Vicious was a dedicated worker and tried his hardest to learn to play ; indeed, this period was Cook's favourite in the band.
The first town meeting was held at the school-house near Nathaniel Kent's May 4, 1830, and the following officers elected: William Teall, supervisor ; Benjamin Healey, town clerk ; Wilkes Richardson, Isaac C. Pool, Silas Williams, assessors ; Martin L. Cook, John Matoon, over -.
The two later reconciled ; Cook told him in this meeting that his motivation for including him in the lawsuit was that it would make the case of a higher profile, and thus more likely to stick to his original abuser.
The women in attendance at the initial meeting were: Emma Hale Smith, Sarah M. Cleveland, Phebe Ann Hawkes, Elizabeth Jones, Sophia Packard, Philinda Merrick, Martha Knight, Desdemona Fulmer, Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Leonora Taylor, Bathsheba W. Smith, Phebe M. Wheeler, Elvira A. Coles ( Cowles ; later Elivira A. C. Holmes ), Margaret A. Cook, Athalia Robinson, Sarah Granger Kimball, Eliza R. Snow, Sophia Robinson, Nancy Rigdon and Sophia R. Marks.
* Point Cook Motorcycle Club PCMC is a on-road social club, meeting at the Waterstone Cafe in Sanctuary Lakes on Sunday mornings for social rides.
When the film crew arrived on the Island of Rarotonga ( capital of the Cook Islands ), the Prime Minister welcomed them by gathering all of the religious ministers of the community for a prayer meeting.
1888 – April 1912 ) was a Risso's dolphin that was famous for meeting and escorting ships through a stretch of water in Cook Strait, New Zealand, between 1888 and 1912.
Focusing primarily on Cook, the film traces the pair from their first meeting through their career as part of the Beyond the Fringe review, their television series Not Only ...
Cook meeting a typical sticky end at the hands of Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill ( 1947 film ) | Born to Kill ( 1947 ).
Cook Hall is and features coaches ' offices, locker rooms, player lounges, meeting / video rooms, new practice courts, training rooms, a strength development area, and a Legacy Court.
At the August 27th meeting Matt Cook, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Revenue was quoted as saying, " Medical-Marijuana Infused Products are any product, including but not limited to Teas, Tinctures, Hashish, Extracts, Balms, and Lotions that are ingested in any manner other than by smoking.

Cook and with
Three weeks later, following his recovery, armed with a writ issued by the Catskill justice on affidavits prepared by the district attorney, Cook and Russell rode to arrest Martinez.
Dropping to one knee, Cook felled one, and the other struggled off with his comrade, sending no further fire in his direction.
Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.
International Association of Culinary Professionals ' Literary Food Writing Award for both The Cook and the Gardener and Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes
In the Cook Islands, blue laws were first written legislation, enacted by the London Missionary Society in 1827, with the consent of ariki ( chiefs ).
From 1778 a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands.
Paul Hester worked with children's entertainers The Wiggles, playing " Paul the Cook ".
Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).
Today, the Cook Islands are essentially independent ( self-governing in free association with New Zealand ), but are still officially placed under New Zealand sovereignty.
The Cook Islands are one of four New Zealand dependencies, along with Tokelau, Niue and the Ross Dependency.
On 11 June 1980, the United States signed a treaty with the Cook Islands specifying the maritime border between the Cook Islands and American Samoa and also relinquishing its claim to the islands of Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Manihiki, and Rakahanga.
In 1990 the Cook Islands signed a treaty with France which delimited the maritime boundary between the Cook Islands and French Polynesia.
1965 — The Cook Islands become a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.
The proclamation of neutrality meant that the Cook Islands would not enter into a military relationship with any foreign power, and, in particular, would prohibit visits by US warships.
1991 — The Cook Islands signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation with France, covering economic development, trade and surveillance of the islands ' EEZ.
The establishment of closer relations with France was widely regarded as an expression of the Cook Islands ' Government's dissatisfaction with existing arrangements with New Zealand which was no longer in a position to defend the Cook Islands.
New Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry was fiercely critical of the decision and dispatched a vaka ( traditional voyaging canoe ) with a crew of Cook Islands ' traditional warriors to protest near the test site.

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