Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes in filter and menthol versions, as do Luckies. The company's Waterford boasts a moisture-laden filter, Sweet Caporal has an old name with a new tip, and Colony offers coupons exchangeable for cash or trading stamps. Among other brands being tested are Bull Durham filters, Compass, Brighton, Pinnacle. Tennyson, and something that goes by the clinically clean title of Mayo's Spearmint Blend. This is named after an old Richmond family, not the medical Mayos of Minnesota, but if anyone mistakes the two, Walker probably would not object...
...party of change," said Harold Wilson at last week's 65th annual Labor Party conference in the Channel resort of Brighton. "We seek not to conserve but to transform society." The 1,200 delegates had no idea that before the day was finished the Prime Minister would begin a historic transformation of the British economy...
...support of the U.S. position in Viet Nam, Wilson was booed by Britniks as he read the New Testament lesson in a Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall...
Party resolutions are not binding on British governments, and Wilson is not likely to endanger relations with the U.S. by reducing Britain's defense commitments. Still, for a politician who seeks to rule by consensus, the Brighton balloting clearly showed that he had failed to achieve one in vital foreign policy and defense fields. It is now up to Wilson to either create a new consensus within his party or bend to the one that already exists...
...suffered the rude awakening traditional to upper-class English boys. Sent off to Lancing, a public school near Brighton, he found himself scrapping for perks with a pack of young snobs in full cry. He hated it, but in self-defense he repressed his homesickness and began to play the devil with his wit. At Oxford, where wit and atheism made him fashionable, he drank like a drain, hobbed with the nobs, japed and scraped his way through 2½ years of invaluable idleness. He wrote little but he peered at the peerage, at the descendants of the knights...