Word: britannias
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...electricity is not likely to be turned off at Buckingham Palace. Elizabeth's private income from her Lancaster estates alone comes to some $720,000 yearly. British taxpayers already ante up about $4,744,800 for such items as the upkeep of various palaces, the royal seagoing yacht Britannia, two royal trains and five royal aircraft-plus the royal phone calls and postage stamps...
Life continued to imitate a detective story in the ongoing Howard Hughes mystery last week. No fewer than nine private investigators moved into rooms directly beneath the Hughes suite on the ninth floor of Nassau's Britannia Beach Hotel, their suitcases crammed with bugging devices, amplifiers and detailed maps of the island. Perhaps nine was a few too many to be inconspicuous; perhaps they were out-bugged from above. In any case, they were spotted, questioned and turned over to Bahamian authorities by agents of Intertel, a security firm employed by the Hughes Tool Co. "Get off the island...
...Britannia may have ruled the waves, but America had the best ships: first the famous clippers, then the fastest steamships afloat and eventually some of the most luxurious liners ever to ply the Atlantic. Today only two American passenger ships operate from the Atlantic Coast, and next month they will show the Stars and Stripes there for the last time...
...cast is totally honest and utterly skillful. It is difficult to imagine two young actors more sensitively attuned to their roles than Paul Jones as Drake and Jeremy Clyde as Millington. For the rest, Britannia may no longer rule the waves, but it reigns in the playhouses of London and New York with acting of the highest style...
...Consider this recent episode at Grand Bahama's Britannia pub, where barmaids fetchingly wear maxi-miniskirts fashioned from the Union Jack...