Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rutstein applied for the grant, awarded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, in December. He plans to use the money to work on a new book, Medicine of the Future, which will deal with the social forces that are "pushing medical care into new patterns," Rutstein said...
...pound of silver into 20 shillings and 240 pence, but everyone agrees that the system is a bedeviling bother. It irritates international bankers, confuses tourists and even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted in 1955, South Africa in 1961. The Bahamas will switch this year, New Zealand next year. Even Britain...
Early in 1965 almost every significant political leader in Massachusetts agreed that the state needed more than $200 million in additional annual revenues. Now, twelve months later, the financial plight of the Commonwealth is even more pressing; yet these same leaders continue to bicker among themselves, unable to agree on an equitable tax plan to raise the vitally needed funds...
...always something of a snob. As Prime Minister, he was constantly darting off to London for receptions and ceremonies, test matches at the fashionable Marylebone Cricket Club, and the Commonwealth Conference ("I make a few statesmanlike remarks. The eminent gentlemen of the civil service, who have already written the ultimate communiqué, say, 'Yes, that was a good point...
...best, the meeting could win for Prime Minister Harold Wilson grudging endorsement of his policy of economic sanctions against Ian Smith's renegade government. At worst, it could split wide open Britain's multiracial Commonwealth, already strained by Wilson's refusal to use military force. In the end, it was a very much relieved...