Word: britannia
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...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...
...familiar profile along the Thames-side skyline in London is the sooty statue of Britannia, bearing a trident, atop the Victorian baroque pile that is the Tate Gallery. Britannia grasps her trident in what heraldry says is the wrong (that is, right) hand. In the past, this maladroitness has seemed symbolic of the Tate...
...Home. In a two-hour session with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the dogged Scot won U.S. acceptance of Britain's cautious condition that "participation as an observer is not a commitment." U.S. officials are hopeful nonetheless that when the time comes to sign the treaty establishing MLF, Britannia will want to join. "After all," hinted a British diplomat last week, "we hardly need to sit in on the talks just to find out what it's all about...
...royal bodyguard collared him, shooed him off to join the boys for dinner and a movie (It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield). But since Scottish law sets 18 as the legal drinking age, that spot of brandy soon splashed into headlines, and Buckingham Palace-perhaps mindful that Britannia has waived the rules too often lately-left its heir apparent to the mercies of Gordonstoun Headmaster Robert Chew. Chew began chewing with: "The normal punishment for an offense of this kind is a beating or a demotion. The latter seems the likelier...
...Establishment. Britannia used to rule the waves; nowadays it can scarcely hold the tongues of its 20-year-olds. It's mock mock mock all night long as this freshman three-man, two-woman revue team tries to match the varsity players of Beyond the Fringe...