Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rothschild report found, among other things, that 94% of the adult British population gambles at some time or other, 39% regularly. Happily the commission did not find that the national passion produced any harmful social or economic side effects. Rather, it suggested ways in which gambling could be more constructively channeled into socially beneficial directions. Noting that some London casino operations make 400% returns on their investments and that Ladbrokes, the best-known name in British bookmaking, doubles its profits every two years, the commission also pointed to the country's depleted coffers and held out the public hand...
While being occasionally fleeced himself, it would appear the British bettor likes nothing more than to learn that gambling problems also occur in the best of families. Tabloid readers lapped up a recent court case involving the Duchess of Bedford's daughter-in-law, a sultry Iranian high roller named Kitty Milinaire, who in an epic three-year binge frittered away a $6 million fortune at chemin de fer, blackjack and practically anything else at which she could try her diamond-decorated hand. Charged with stealing jewels taken out on approval from Cartier, Kitty, 39, was acquitted...
...want is to be a normal famly. Having our own baby is our dearest wish." That sentiment has surely been voiced by many an expectant parent, and Gilbert John Brown, 38, a British truck driver, is no exception. His wife Lesley, 30, is scheduled to give birth shortly. All that seems commonplace. But the birth of the Browns' baby may well be the most sensational obstetrical event since the birth of the Dionne quintuplets in 1934. Reason: the child will be the world's first baby conceived in a test tube...
Over the years, Steptoe and Edwards have tried this basic technique on a number of infertile women, but Brown is the only one to have carried her baby so close to full term. One British newspaper reported that at least another six women are expecting lab-conceived children within two months. Drs. Steptoe and Edwards say that the Brown "pregnancy is progressing well," but until the baby is born no one can be sure that it is normal...
...tabloid Daily Mail, the Evening News and more than 50 provincial sheets of the Associated Newspapers Group, Ltd., founded by his uncle Lord Northcliffe and his father; in London. After serving a decade as a Conservative M.P., Rothermere took over the family newspapers and remained a strong force in British journalism until he handed over control in 1971 to his son Vere Harmsworth (now also the chairman of Esquire magazine). Though Rothermere's ultra-Tory Daily Mail trails the late Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, it has a circulation of 1.9 million and stays well in the black...