Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business venture, a domed and terra cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace and the Tower." Now Western Europe's largest department store, Harrods is the pride of the House of Fraser Ltd. (1967 sales: $243 million), the chain which bought the eight-store Harrods group for about $100 million...
...week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...
...royal mane and Roger Vivier prescribed a pair of shoes that made up in sex appeal what they lost in good sense. Out of the imaginary exercise came a composite photo of a rather lovely Liz, but one that her subjects will probably never see, inside or outside Buckingham Palace...
Last week ICA turned its back on its threadbare past, moved into new quarters in London's Pall Mall, not far from Buckingham Palace and only a few moments' trek from Trafalgar Square. Not that ICA has any intention of changing its way-out ways. Says Sir Roland Penrose, who has chaired the institute since its founding: "Painter, musician, poet, sculptor, actor, playwright, film director are all looking for ways of jumping into their neighbors' shoes-or at least running three-legged races with them. The new ICA gallery will encourage these trends...
...human casualty of the gold crisis in Britain was Foreign Secretary George Brown, a man with a large reputation for unpredictability. When Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the mid night conference with the Queen at Buckingham Palace at which the government decided to declare a bank holiday, he unaccountably failed to summon Brown, even though the issue's foreign policy implications were obvious. In fact, Brown, who was listening to a debate in Commons at the time, first learned of the meeting when a fellow Labor M.P. asked him what was going on. Enraged by being left out, Brown...