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...flag, neither to exceed 4 m.p.h. I have seen steam rollers moving at 3 m.p.h. with a man walking in front with the flag (I am 83). On Nov. 14, 1896, the speed permitted was increased to 12 m.p.h. To celebrate, a run was organized from London to Brighton for a collection of motor vehicles, German, French, British and American, to the number of about a score, the distance being 52 miles...
...particularly surprising because Harold Wilson's Labor Party has always looked on Europe with a suspicious eye. When Britain applied for Common Market membership in 1961, it was under the leadership of Harold Macmillan's Conservatives; Labor's Hugh Gaitskell, in a slashing speech at Brighton only three months before his death, in effect committed the socialists to stay out of Europe...
...year-old janitor, who is charged with the holdup of the Reliance Cooperative Bank on April 20, suffered a heart yesterday morning. He is listed "satisfactory" condition in a Brighton , but doctors are uncertain he will have recovered to testify at the hearing...
...there is money jingling in almost everyone's pocket. Over last week's Bank Holiday weekend, 10,000,000 autos jammed the roads, and traffic snarls stretched as far as ten miles. Mods and Rockers, those peculiar breeds of British youth, made their seasonal migration to Brighton and points south, and fought a few Easter skirmishes. Other adolescents, together with older Ban-the-Bombers, set out on the annual march from Aldermaston to London's Trafalgar Square, where their beards and unkempt heads of hair frightened the pigeons. In the Cotswolds, hunting horns sounded over green hills...
...Brighton National Bank in Colorado, said Saxon and his aides, a Denver mystery man named James W. Egan, whom they described as an apparent "front for gangsters," secretly got control of the bank before it had even opened, and "completely milked" its assets. Two financiers, one with a criminal record, took over the First National Bank of Marlin, Texas, through a front man, said Saxon; they promptly turned around and collected $179,000 in commissions for selling the bank mortgages of dubious value...