Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caucus elected an outspoken and highly ambitious liberal, California's Phillip Burton, as its chairman...
...this Taffy writing in the New York Times to lambaste the greatest Englishman of his age, Winston Churchill? Was Welsh Actor Richard Burton trying a backhanded publicity stunt for the TV documentary The Gathering Storm, which starred Burton as a stringy, humorless Winnie and was aired to celebrate the centenary of Churchill's birth? Or was he playing protector of Fiancee Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, whose father, Prince Paul, handed over his country to the Nazis in 1941 and was publicly vilified by Churchill...
Whatever the reason, the actor's outburst that Churchill was a despicable coward and an overriding dictator, in fact, "a medieval bandit king," met with more puzzlement than outrage in England. Said Churchill's grandson Winston: "When I had lunch with Burton recently, he almost thought he was Churchill." As for Burton, he issued a rambling apology, if not a retraction...
...some very exciting physics to tell you," said M.I.T. Physicist Samuel Ting earlier this month as he entered the office of Burton Richter, a Stanford University physicist. "Listen," Richter interrupted, "I've got some exciting physics to tell you." In fact, the two researchers, working independently and a continent apart, had almost simultaneously made an important discovery: a totally new type of subatomic particle that could upset prevailing ideas about the basic nature of matter...
...Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor romance is over, but the bills for damages are still coming in. Robert and Antonia Henning, who rented Dick and Liz their Chico, Calif., house for six weeks last spring while Burton filmed The Klansman, are now suing for almost $3,000, alleging that carpets, bedspreads and mattresses must be replaced. This is not the only moment past to haunt Burton. Just before he proposed to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, he gave an English magazine a handwritten advertisement for a woman under 38 to bear him a child for a fee. Explained the actor: "The sound...