Word: briton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. John Stuart Martin, 76, former TIME Managing Editor; after a long illness; in Phillipsburg, N.J. A cousin of TIME Co-Founder Briton Hadden, Martin became Managing Editor when Hadden died suddenly in 1929. A demanding stylist who held that TIME should be written from the point of view of "the man in the moon at the end of the current century," Martin in his long career also worked on LIFE and FORTUNE, wrote books and the narration for the film The Fighting Lady...
...fortnight later, recalls Eban, he ran into a British official who told him that Amin had been seeking Harrier jets from London for the same purpose. "What did you do?" wondered Eban. "I asked him," said the Briton, "if he wanted another...
Richard called Smith's decision "tragic and fateful." The Briton had reached cautious accord with leaders of the five black "frontline" countries surrounding Rhodesia-Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. He had also talked with four black nationalist leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the hard-line Patriotic Front, and the more moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Only Smith, said Richard, had balked completely. "Smith wants to settle on his own terms. That's not settlement by negotiation. That's settlement by ultimatum...
...ever a Briton was born and bred for success, it was Eden. The third son of Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...like a scene out of a Graham Greene novel: a Central-American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer...