Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergency Cabinet meeting two weeks later, O'Neill promised to severely limit demonstrations and bear down hard on lawbreakers from either side. He also proposed a high-level commission to look into what caused the violence, a move that Catholic Leader Currie hailed as the harbinger of "British democracy here." His followers and Bunting called off plans for further demonstrations, though Paisley last week carried his campaign to St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where he was pelted with oranges, to demonstrate against an appearance there by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster...
...crisis could be set off by any substantial deficit in the U.S. payments balance or by a bad British trade report, a weakening of the French franc, or some political event that would fan distrust of paper currencies. Of all the possibilities, bankers worry most about the increasing disparity between the economic strength of West Germany and the weakness of France and Britain...
...talk tough to trade unionists. The petite wife of Ted Castle, political editor of the Sun, a national daily, she can be a rugged infighter. In her former position as Minister of Transport, she pushed through legislation empowering police to give "Breathalyser" tests to drunken-driving suspects. That enraged British pub owners, who introduced "the bloody Barbara," a drink consisting of tomato juice and tonic-but no alcohol...
...campaigning for the first basic labor reform in 60 years, Mrs. Castle is up against harder foes than pub owners or irate drivers. The problem of overlapping unions-there are 35 in the British auto industry, 16 in steel-leads to endless jurisdictional disputes. It also forces employers to bargain with many competing unions simultaneously and makes industry-wide negotiations almost impossible. Remarkably, unions are not bound by the agreements that they sign, and there are no legal provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to forestall even the most outrageous strikes. As a result, more than...
Married. Dawn Pepita Langley Hall, 31, British authoress who was Author Gordon Langley Hall (Jacqueline Kennedy: A Biography) until a transsexual operation in Baltimore last October; and John Paul Simmons, 22, her Negro steward; both for the first time; in a small Baptist ceremony at the bride's home in Charleston, S.C. Her mother (by adoption), Actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, said that she was pleased with the marriage...