Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused to continue to feed gold to satisfy speculators' greed. In a telephoned message to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, the U.S. asked Britain to close the London gold market and shut off the flow from the Gold Pool. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hurried to Buckingham Palace for a midnight meeting with Queen Elizabeth, who declared a bank holiday in foreign-exchange trading. That shut off the Gold Pool's dealing, and money markets from Singapore to Lusaka followed suit. The Paris market alone stayed open...
...many as 180 M.P.s either abstained or absented themselves during the ballot. Many newspapers bitterly branded the bill as a betrayal; the Sunday Times caricatured a bloated Home Secretary James Callaghan under a sign: "I'm not blacking Britain." Demonstrators marched with petitions to 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. And the Archbishop of Canterbury, among others, joined a futile mini-filibuster during the House of Lords' longest sitting (19 hours, 16 minutes) of the century...
...five quick years as discoverer-manager of the Beatles, fledgling Impresario Brian Epstein made $14 million, lived with a valet in a town house around the corner from Buckingham Palace, and adopted opulence as a way of life. He made so much money that not even high spending and Britain's high taxes could drain it all. When he died last summer at 32 of an overdose of barbiturates, Epstein left an estate of about $1,200,000, which after taxes and debts comes to $638,400. Epstein had no will, and the money will go to his mother...
...morning last week his body was found in bed by his valet in his town house around the corner from Buckingham Palace. He was 32. Police uncovered "no suspicious circumstances," but no natural causes either. He had been ill with mononucleosis, but that disease is almost never fatal. So a coroner's inquest was ordered, with a verdict due this week. One speculation...
...lyrics, which I believe are by Babe, Timothy Mayer, and Hugh Buckingham, often stammer with varied rhythms, and are always clear and powerful...