Word: chesham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadowy race who inhabited England some 6,000 years ago. The Rudges believe that the ancient Tardenoisians laid out the pudding stone trail to guide them to their flint mines. The center of their culture may have been the ring of pudding stones now in the foundation of the Chesham church...
Gregory's priests and their successors seem to have followed the Pope's advice. In Chesham, towards the west in Buckinghamshire, the Rudges found an old church built on 19 pudding stones set in a circle, a sort of primitive Stonehenge (TIME, June 2), and probably much more ancient...
...candidate from the outer reaches of British society may make the grade, but not unless he graduates fairly well (a "second class") from a university. Competitive exams usually knock out half the several hundred applicants. The survivors move on to a large old house on London's Chesham Place, once the Czarist Russian embassy, for a harrowing two-day grilling. There, in groups of six, the candidates show their paces before a government official, a psychologist and perhaps a university don. Each is required to make a speech, write a memorandum, chairman a mock committee meeting. The examiners...