Word: brits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dita tells it, her life has had its grim moments, but mostly it was fun. Her job at ITT "got better and better-it was beautiful until those sons of bitches pulled this one on me." She was apparently referring to Columnist Anderson and his legman Brit Hume. "I started raising hell when I was born, and I ain't quit yet," she said. Her father Robert Davis was serving in Germany as an Army colonel when she was born at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1918. Her parents at one point had three birth certificates prepared with different names...
...this week, when Brit ain's Parliament passes en abling legislation and Faulkner officially resigns, the Northern Ireland government will be run by a Cabinet member from London...
...else, Anderson argues, can there be an effective check on the probity of government? Brit Hume, 28, another of his staff members, charges that most political reporters ask the wrong questions. "Who's paying?" he demands to know. "Who's behind the candidate? Who's really winning?" This is another strong tenet in the Anderson credo -one that unites him both philosophically and tactically with Ralph Nader, with whom he shares material and mutual admiration. They are both obsessed by the influence of private power and big money on public men and public policy. Almost by reflex...
There was one particularly intriguing chapter in the week's testimony. Last month Jack Anderson's assistant, Brit Hume, had appeared in ITT's Washington office and showed the original of the Beard memo to Mrs. Beard and her boss, ITT Vice President W.R. Merriam. According to Geneen and ITT Senior Vice President Howard Aibel, the Washington staff was ordered "to remove any documents that were no longer needed for current operations, as well as documents which, if put into Mr. Anderson's possession, could be misused and misconstrued by him so as to cause embarrassment...
...East also has a much larger Hindu minority than the West: 10 million out of a population of 78 million, compared with 800,000 Hindus out of a population of 58 million in the West. In Brit ish India days, the western reaches of what is now West Pakistan formed the frontier of the empire, and the British trained the energetic Punjabis and Pathans as soldiers. They scorn the lungi, a Southeast Asian-style sarong worn by the Bengalis. "In the East," a West Pakistani saying has it, "the men wear the skirts and the women the pants...