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...story was suggested by the custom, common among British labor unions, of bringing a rebellious member back in line by "sending him to Coventry."* In this case, the rebel is a machinist (Richard Attenborough), an ordinary bloke who sticks to the telly and minds his football pools, until one day the Works Committee calls a wildcat strike that he considers senseless. Along with about a dozen other men, he refuses to take part in it. Factory toughs terrorize the holdouts, and all but the hero come to heel. "Don't do to step out of line these days," somebody...
...punishment, say union men, is tough but necessary. "It may seem like bullying," argues a Trades Union Congress official, "but it is also a fact that society has some sort of right to impose pressure on a bloke who won't toe the line. You get a form of anarchy if people strike off on their...
...when almost all Britain was rejoicing over the impending May marriage of Princess Margaret to a happily suitable commoner, Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the editors of a top British authority on noble genealogy, Debrett's Peerage, came along to spoil the illusion that Tony is just an ordinary bloke. After 16 days of laborious climbing in a forest of family trees, Debrett's Assistant Editor Patrick Montague-Smith proclaimed that Armstrong-Jones is not only of royal blood but also a very distant kinsman of Margaret. In a complex chart, Montague-Smith submitted proof that Tony is 22nd...
Adultery aside, some of their lordships were causing concern enough. The latest statistics show that society mothers launching their daughters would do far far better to snare for a son-in-law an ordinary bloke with a kind heart than the wearer of a coronet. While only one in 15 marriages between commoners breaks up in Britain, seven of 25 of Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings...
...Dunkirk (Ealing; M-G-M). Blimey! 'Ow could 'e do it? 'Ere's this bloke, see, this Mike Balcon-'e ain't no bloody amateur when there's a camera abaht. 'E did aowl' Alec's Lavender Hill Mob, an' with not much 'elp neither, financially so to speak, and they're sayin' 'e's brilliant, 'e's got it made. A ruddy, stained-glass genius, that's what they called 'im. 'E's no genius...