Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising crimes of violence and pointed the way for a 1964 experiment: compensation for people who suffer physical injury at the hands of wrongdoers. Headed by Sir Ronald Long, former president of the English Law Society, a six-lawyer committee called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has invited any Briton to claim damages for anything from arson to assault to injuries incurred while helping the police or trying to make a citizen's arrest...
...Those Coronations. As a vaguely "loyal" Briton, this bothers him. He publicly refuses to swear that he will not overthrow the Government of the United States by force and so sparks a bout of local McCarthyism (the late Senator's name still evokes crocodile fears in liberal British hearts), from which he emerges an embarrassed hero. Agog with admiration, a leggy, Kierkegaard-quoting girl bagpiper sweeps him off in her car for a premarital shakedown trip to Mexico, where she hopes to make a real swinger of him, but, depressed by his invincible fuddy-duddery, gives...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A bowler-hatted Briton and a mod Honey West explore "The Murder Market," which is masquerading as a marriage mart...
...pleasantly arrogant young Briton and his pretty, skittish twin sister are unwittingly trapped in the warfare between a cell of Black Muslim-type activists and a clutch of Negro-baiting neoFascists. Eventually the twins bob up at an international Fascist jamboree atop Mount Parnassus, where the Negroes attack the Fascists in their meeting-tent, then rape and murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance...
Unlike the long common custom of manning overseas offices with a few U.S. executives and a staff of nationals from the nation in which the office is located, Esso Europe will be a miniature United Nations. Its seven-man board of directors will include an Italian, Frenchman and Briton, its 450-man headquarters staff will comprise many nationalities. Already Jersey has an advance task force in London made up of Italians shopping for homes for Italian executives, Frenchmen seeking out French schools and shops, Americans finding American quarters. "We consider Esso Europe an interim step," says Nicholas J. Campbell...