Word: britons
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...minutes into his speech, Aiken remarked that South Vietnam could not do a very good job of defending itself, and Rendell objected aloud. Rendell, a Briton who has spent a few years in Vietnam, told the audience from his seat behind the lectern that South Vietnam has the second strongest army in Southeast Asia...
...abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners a week, or one Briton in three. Not only is the sport good for advertising bullion; the pirate stations have also become a symbol of the rebellion against the BBC, whose hoary morning Housewives' Choice is apt to consist of an Elvis Presley side, a Hawaiian number, a march, a Chris Barber moldy-fig opus...
...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...