Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PEAPICKER IN PICCADILLY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie Ford takes his country sound to England and surrounds it with an all-British guest list including Davy Jones, Terry-Thomas, Norman Wisdom and Harry Secombe...
...William Haley, former director-general of the British Broadcasiing Corp.; Author-Critics Marya Mannes and Michael Aden: Richard Baker, acting dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and his predecessor, Dean Edward Barrett...
...Last week, however, a 19-year-old corporal grabbed his companion's carbine and pulled out the firing mechanism. As his astonished comrade watched helplessly, the young East German gingerly made his way over tank traps, trip wires, and a 10-ft. spiked fence to freedom in the British sector of West Berlin. He was the 2,183rd uniformed East German to defect since the erection of the Wall...
...boycott Rhodesian exports, Smith claimed that many countries of the free world were quietly helping Rhodesia. On the fourth anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, Smith said that Rhodesia expects a 10% increase this year in its gross national product, "exceptional by any standard." But British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart recently told the House of Commons that Rhodesia's export earnings had dropped by 40%. "Alone among all the countries of the world." he said, "its total national product is less than it was four years...
...story centers on the erratic spiritual progress of Dame Philippa, a widow who enters Brede at age 42 after a successful career as a British government officer. At least half a dozen more biographies are told with quiet humor and occasionally painful intimacy. Moreover, the order is beset by a fiscal crisis, which is solved when a scapular cross cracks open revealing a ruby as big as the Ritz. Miss Godden's stylistic triumph is the placing of events within the cycles of the divine office and the liturgical year. She lived at England's Stanbrook Benedictine monastery...