Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leyland Motor Corp., the Commonwealth's largest producer of heavy trucks, last week made an apparently successful $70-million bid to buy the Rover Co., whose Land Rover sales have been hit by Japanese competition. With 70,000 employees and $840-million-a-year revenue from 10% of the passenger-car and 25% of the commercial-vehicle markets, Leyland-Rover would become Britain's No. 3 automak er, after British Motor Corp. and Ford. Though the marriage seems to be one of necessity. Leyland Chairman Sir William Black says that Rover has been "a glint...
...probably can count on enough votes to limit Security Council action, and can always resort to the veto to block total sanctions. But a veto would only put London in serious trouble with its own former African colonies, many of whom have been threatening for months to abandon the Commonwealth over Rhodesia. Even limited sanctions would pose a crisis for the U.N. If they are imposed, South Africa might be forced to resign from the world body...
...Robert Preston, this musical is blessed; in its book and score, it is blubber. The show is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. "A marriage is neither an ecstasy nor a slavery; it is a commonwealth," said G. K. Chesterton; in I Do! I Do!, marriage is a half-century diet of cotton candy...
Both had good reason to try to settle their differences. Wilson, under Commonwealth pressure, had promised to ask the U.N. for mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia unless the rebel regime came to terms. Such sanctions would hurt the Smith regime, perhaps even to the point of causing a white exodus from Rhodesia. But they could also bring Britain into direct confrontation with South Africa, its fourth largest customer, which announced that it would support Rhodesia to the hilt...
...that, is no little England. Fully a seventh of the island is sinking as a result of swift underground currents, and it will take an estimated $40 million to correct the situation. The island's 250,000 population makes it the third most densely populated area in the Commonwealth, after Hong Kong and Malta. The density is easing only where it can least be afforded: the cream of Bajan youth is emigrating to the better opportunities in the U.S., Canada or Britain. Though the economy is viable, its heavy dependence on sugar, which provides 90% of the nation...