Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fertile Middle Eastern imaginations, the incident blossomed to vast proportions. "The Egyptian people," wrote the Cairo newspaper Al Misri, "were very surprised and annoyed when they heard of the bombing of Yemenite villages by the R.A.F. We don't know how Britain could do such a thing. She should be ashamed of herself." Last week, four be-daggered Yemeni arrived at Flushing Meadows to lay their case before .the United Nations...
...hill in Britain's Hampshire countryside one morning last week trooped a procession of 500 boys, some clad in flowing black robes, others straw-hatted in neat tweeds and flannels. After Anglican prayers, the boys marched down the hill to their lodgings and breakfasted on sausages and fried tomatoes...
With such immemorial tradition began the 555th year of Winchester College, one of Britain's oldest public schools and the prototype of such others as Eton and Harrow. Founded in 1394 by William of Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary...
Tacks & Taxes. How much longer such schools as Winchester could keep sailing, without at least changing their traditional tack, was the question. It costs ?276 a year for Britain's heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
...London of ?125. But from London eastward to Cairo, New Delhi, etc., fares will remain unchanged at their old rate in pounds, francs, etc. That meant that U.S. airlines will have to take as much as a 30% cut in dollar fares to compete. On the sea lanes, Britain's luxury liners, a prime source of dollar revenue, promptly raised their pound fares at least 30% to keep their dollar intake the same...