Word: britain
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With his intelligence, wit, self-discipline and sense of duty and concern for his people, Britain's Prince Charles [May 15] is already a king...
...While Britain operates with a professionally trained management team of Elizabeth, Philip, Charles & Co., we muddle on with cattle ranchers, third-rate lawyers and peanut farmers with no leadership background. You don't suppose they'd lend us Charles...
...fanatically partisan fans of Britain's four national teams (representing England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) have all turned Scottish for a month, since the Highlanders are the only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
DIVORCED. Princess Margaret, 47, younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; and Lord Snowdon, 48, a photographer raised to the peerage after their Westminster Abbey wedding; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in London. The routine two-minute court hearing granted the first divorce to an immediate member of the British royal family since 1540, when Henry VIII divorced Anne of Cleves...
...troubled climate of high unemployment with a flimsy sugar-cane economy, Bradshaw clung to power chiefly because of his adaptability. A onetime bicycle mechanic and cane cutter, he rose as a labor organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime Minister and, sensing opposition to his posh lifestyle, decelerated to khakis and a Land Rover...