Word: britannia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gardener. I hope he'll make a better president." Obviously, the wind of change wafts through this tart topical melodrama, an updated version of the old favorite about a group of decent, civilized folk marooned in a jungle outpost among hordes of savages. They no longer sing Rule, Britannia! Even the comforting strains of There'll Always Be an England are but dimly heard, and the tribal chieftains have evolved into smartly uniformed officers with English accents and political ambitions...
...Shoo, Shoo, Shoo." As the Queen arrived in Quebec City, all Canada held its breath. Sailing up the St. Lawrence from Prince Edward Island, where she began her eight-day visit, the royal yacht Britannia docked at Wolfe's Cove, and for a full hour security police combed the area before the Queen and Prince Philip stepped ashore. In a bleakly unceremonial freight shed, she inspected the honor guard, listened to a welcoming speech by Premier Jean Lesage, then climbed into a bulletproof Cadillac for the drive to the Quebec Parliament Building-and a reception as chill...
...most extensive security precautions in Canada's peacetime history. The Queen will visit only three cities: Charlottetown on English-speaking Prince Edward Is land, the Quebec capital of Quebec City, and the federal capital at Ottawa. As she sails up the St. Lawrence River aboard the royal yacht Britannia, frog men will check the hull for mines at every stop. During parades, she will ride in a closed, bulletproof limousine, and in Quebec City a fleet of armored riot-control trucks awaits...
...last, the fog of traditionalism has begun to lift over London, and the artistic void has been filled by a platoon of young painters whose cool, bold work, while clearly influenced by U.S. pop art, is rooted in a distinctively English idiom that may well help Britannia rule a new wave. At the 1963 Paris Biennale, where French art bored even the French for a change, two of the young Londoners, Allen Jones and David Hockney, took the top prizes for painting and graphics from among 500 international entrants. Predicts Robertson: "The next great concentration of painters-after New York...
...Plane Drain. That goes back to 1954, when BOAC's bid for competitive leadership in the jet age went down after a series of crashes of its much-touted Comet1 jetliner. With all the Comets grounded as unsafe until 1958, BOAC concentrated on Britannia turboprops, at the government's insistence buying only British planes. By the time the Britannias were flying the all-important North Atlantic run in 1958, competing airlines had already taken off in the bigger, faster, U.S.-made long-range pure jets. Eventually BOAC got permission to buy 20 Boeing 707s-but only...