Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basil Kingsley Martin has been stirring such steam-heated passion since he became the Statesman's editor in 1931. He made it Britain's leading organ of dissent, with a circulation of 80,038-nearly twice that of its competitor, the Spectator (42,453). Now, after an uncharacteristically mild valedictory ("Thirty years at an office desk seems long enough"), Kingsley Martin, 63, is taking a new title-editorial director-and a new assignment as the Statesman's roving foreign correspondent. His chosen successor as editor: Assistant Editor John Freeman...
...Newspapers for Kennedy: the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times, whose arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded...
...BASIL L. WALTERS...
...changes in Protestant thought that lie behind this trend were neatly analyzed last week in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by the Rev. Gregory Baum of St. Basil's Seminary in Toronto...
Sliding & Slipstreaming. Moss's own perfectionism is his greatest handicap, argues the London Daily Express's Basil Cardew, forcing him "to exact more from a car, because he makes it go faster, than possibly anyone we have known in the past." His demands have resulted in a long history of mechanical breakdowns and kept the Grand Prix championship beyond his reach. But Stirling Moss insists he can drive no other...