Word: britannia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around 12:30 p.m. every Monday and Friday, an aging Cubana Airlines turboprop Britannia whistles to a halt at Mexico City's International Airport. Squads of police stand by. All passengers arriving without diplomatic or Mexican passports are photographed and questioned by immigration men. Sometimes the travelers grapple with the cameramen; they always dodge questions. "Why are you here? Where are you going?" ask the Mexicans. "None of your business," answer the secretive travelers. "Tourists," say the others blandly. Going to Cuba or coming, it is all perfectly legal, and they proceed on their...
...Havana; Delta flew from Haiti and the Dominican Republic; K.L.M. went in from Curasao, a Dutch self-governing territory off the coast of Venezuela. But now the flights have ended, leaving only the twice-weekly Cubana flight to Mexico-and Castro makes the most of it. The 96-seat Britannia is usually half full, an estimated 5,000 people flew back and forth last year. Of those, says CIA Director John A. McCone, about 1,500 have received indoctrination and guerrilla warfare training...
When the Bank of England issued a newly designed ?5 note last week, tradition-minded Englishmen were horrified to find that the 1963 model Britannia looks more like Miss Blackpool than the dumpy dowager who has traditionally ruled the waves from the nation's coins and bank notes. Stripped of her Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than...
Model for the new Britannia was Phillida Stone, an 18-year-old art student at Oxford whose father, Artist Reynolds Stone, was commissioned to design the new mauve, brown and blue fiver (worth $14). At a loss for a model, her father draped Phillida in a sheet, sat his daughter down with a stick in one hand to represent Britannia's spear. Her traditional olive branch was sketched in later. Some found the new design an agreeable change from the buxom figure on most other money. Other Britons thought Phillitannia "clumsily designed," "like Snow White" and "too much like...
...trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while others on a nearby British liner clicked away souvenir photos of their fellow South Seas tourist...