Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire to them all a few years later when he was struck by the revelation that the spaces between the keys hold more fascination than the keys themselves. Eventually he arrived at a 43-tone octave and brought the good news to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who had caught his ear by laying down a doctrine of music for the voice: music must be written so that no word will have an intonation or accentuation it could not have in passionate speech...
...Currently in the lead (Daily Express odds: 4-7) is Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, who is youthful (46) and ready to take credit for a predicted economic spurt this summer. He is also happily married, a particularly useful qualification right now. Next are Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler (2-1), who has all the necessary experience, but at 60 may have been around too long; and Lord Hailsham, bellicose, blimpish Science Minister, 55, whose hopes faded rapidly when the government said that its lords reform bill, which would permit him to sit in the Commons, would...
Macmillan will have to step down eventually-and may in fact have promised his own dissident ministers to do so once the heat is off. Loose factions were already forming around such possible successors to Macmillan as Deputy Prime Minister R. A. ("Rab") Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling and Science Minister Lord Hailsham...
Beaverbrook's most memorable anecdote concerns a crucial dinner party at which Chamberlain, "the most important and impressive guest," was expounding on Ireland. "Only one detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...
...advance will go. Last week the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported that the gross national product rose to a record annual rate of $572 billion in the first quarter, $2 billion more than the Administration had predicted. Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President William F. Butler figures that G.N.P. will reach $582 billion in 1963 v. 1962's $554 billion, and others now feel that it may hit $585 billion. "There's an old saw," says Boston Federal Reserve Bank Economist Paul S. Anderson, "that a boom begets a bust, but it is also possible that...