Word: closed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...accounts the Thatcher family is a close-knit foursome, and Husband Denis is a cheery, supportive consort. Although the Thatchers last week began moving into the impersonal family quarters at No. 10 Downing Street, they will keep their Chelsea house. How much of their Chelsea routine can be kept is another matter. Normally, Thatcher is up at 6:30 a.m. to cook Denis' breakfast and do the shopping before heading off for Parliament. She likes sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought...
...family's life-style is comfortable, conventional, squarely middle class. Thatcher has few close friends and no real intellectual interests outside politics. She reads primarily "to keep up," as she puts it, much prefers Rudyard Kipling to T.S. Eliot, rarely dines out or sees a play. Her only hobby is collecting Royal Crown Derby china. At the end of a day, she and Denis like to relax over a drink: hers is Scotch, neat and usually just...
Britain's new Conservative government will not be an easy partner for the Carter Administration. Carter enjoyed a close, almost familial relationship with Callaghan, who was something of a "political uncle" to the President. For their first official meeting, Callaghan brought Carter a bolt of cloth for a suit in which pinstripes were made of tiny J.C.s, their common initials. It is not likely that Carter and Thatcher will develop an equally close relationship. "Margaret will start off despising Jimmy Carter," conceded one top Tory, "but responsibility will mellow her." There will be no lessening of Britain's commitment...
...that many regard as "Margaret's mentor," brilliant, brooding Sir Keith Joseph, 61, proved too controversial to be kept too close to her side. A cerebral, Oxford-educated Jewish businessman, Joseph more than anyone else has been responsible for the Tories' monetarist vision of an unfettered economy. Joseph has been accused of insensitivity toward the poor-he once claimed that what Britain needed was "more millionaires and more bankrupts"-and even some Tories characterize him as a "mad monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have...
...free entry to politics from the East, aid from the West, and food from the South," says a white senior civil servant. By this he means that Botswana has diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union, accepts financial assistance from the U.S. and Western Europe, and still has close trade connections with South Africa. Botswana does not maintain diplomatic ties with either Salisbury or Pretoria, but its territory is traversed by a Rhodesian-owned railway, and its economy, which revolves around diamond, copper and zinc mining and cattle ranching, is completely dominated by South Africa...