Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main threat to Britain's application seems to be the British themselves. While Monnet was speaking at a press conference in Brussels about the desirability of European political federation, former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home glanced up from a crossword puzzle and told newsmen that "we British are a practical people. We want to confront a situation first before we think about setting up an institution to handle it." During the same session, British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said that plans for a European Parliament were "premature." Such statements made many Europeans wonder whether the British...
...Newport city fathers that they issued an edict prohibiting any rock at Wein's Newport Folk Festival last weekend. As it happens, no rock groups had been scheduled to appear, but Wein called off a pre-festival program that was to have been built around another hot new British combo, Blind Faith. "Rock is out," he said...
...Ahram approached him in 1956 with an offer to run the paper. Within two years, with Nasser's support, he had put it in the black. Today its circulation approaches half a million and its plant is as luxurious and modern as any in the world, with British presses, West German engraving equipment, and a U.S. computer system that sets Arabic type by means of punched tape...
Married. Alec Waugh, 71, British novelist, biographer and world traveler, who for years labored in the shadow of young brother Evelyn, finally achieved fame and fortune of his own with the 1956 publication of the bestselling Island in the Sun; and Virginia Sorensen, 57, U.S. author of children's books (Curious Missie, Plain Girl, Miracles on Maple Hill); he for the third time, she for the second; in a short civil ceremony; in Gibraltar...
...stock and cash-the Italian firm was in shaky condition as a result of an unprofitable project in Egypt. Since then CTIP's net worth has risen 450%, to $5,000,000. It has won important new business in Latin America, Spain and Scandinavia, and added Gulf and British Petroleum as major clients...