Word: burma
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Last week the Sunday Times produced a different sort of shocker, and the featured players were no less stunning: the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth and onetime Admiral of the Fleet; and Cecil King, now 80, former chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, Britain's largest press empire. The Sunday Times revived the story of a 1968 meeting between the two, first told by Lord Hugh Cudlipp, who was then deputy chairman of I.P.C. According to Cudlipp's 1976 autobiography, King had sought the assistance of Lord Mountbatten to mount a military coup against...
...movement 26 years ago; the Soviet invasion there was a devastating setback to Fidel Castro's attempt to achieve permanent leadership for Cuba in the movement and to establish a kind of godfather status for the U.S.S.R. as the natural ally of nonalignment. States as diverse as Burma, Mozambique and Guyana have begun to distance themselves from the U.S.S.R...
Crane has enough money left in his $300,000 budget for a last-minute TV blitz. But Evans, who has a $225,000 budget, is running short of funds and has to rely on a makeshift approach to reach large numbers of voters. Taking a tip from the old Burma Shave advertisements, he is setting up a series of signs on a busy highway in the district. They read: I'M NOT A LAWYER/ OR A DOCTOR/ DON'T CHARGE HIGH FEES/ I'M HERE WHEN YOU NEED ME/ AND THERE WHEN IT COUNTS/ RE-ELECT DAVE...
DIED. William J. Sebald, 78, who as political adviser to General Douglas MacArthur in postwar Japan played a leading role in repatriating more than 500,000 Japanese prisoners of war and later served as Ambassador to Burma and Australia; of emphysema; in Naples...
Americans might even honor the exuberant, slightly bizarre poetry of their commercial muse. Two or three generations ago, the national laureate might have been the anonymous bard who wrote the Burma Shave roadside quatrains ("In this vale/ Of toil and sin/ Your head grows bald/ But not your chin/ Burma Shave.") The beer commercial ("You've danced all day on a pool of fire," or some such: "Now Comes Miller Time!") has invented a sort of macho haiku that might turn into a national verse form...