Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East, where Communism threatens from Korea's 38th Parallel to the Himalayas, the first formal barrier erected against Red encroachment is a half-forgotten organization called the Colombo Plan. Originated in 1950 by a group of British Commonwealth nations meeting in the capital of Ceylon, the plan was designed as a loosely knit club in which industrial nations and needy Asian countries could negotiate bilateral aid agreements. The club has since grown from eleven to 20 members -frankly, if unofficially, referred to as six donors and 14 recipients.* Last week in Bangkok, at the organization's annual Consultative...
...Victoria, can be described as the mother-in-law of European royalty, then the duchess was the mother-in-law of the Establishment. At her death, she left 162 descendants. Today they include, aside from Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec, the Duke of Devonshire, Under Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and brother-in-law of the late Kathleen Kennedy; Lord Lansdown, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs; the half-Vanderbilt Duke of Marlborough; and the Duchess of Gloucester, aunt of the Queen...
Died. Diana Churchill, 54, eldest daughter of Sir Winston, a quiet blonde who saw her first marriage, to a South African gold-mine heir, go on the rocks within months, her second, to Tory Politician Duncan Sandys (now Commonwealth Relations Secretary), end after 25 years in 1960, reverted to her maiden name and devoted her time to the Samaritans, an organization that tries to dissuade would-be suicides from taking the final step; by her own hand (barbiturates); in London...
...Alliances: "Internationally, Britain's strength rests upon a tripod of the Commonwealth, Europe, and the Atlantic Alliance. But a tripod is a particularly uncomfortable seat if one leg is shorter and weaker than the other, and so it must be the positive purpose of our foreign policy to strengthen all three...
...doubt "fornication" is only one of the more genial of a long list of activities illegal in Massachusetts; if Harvard is going to make itself responsible for this, it ought not to ignore duller sins. Certainly Harvard has the right to see that the laws of the Commonwealth are upheld by members of the University -- and I'm sure that residents of the Houses would surrender more gracefully to the inevitable if the problem were stated unequivocally. But why in heaven's name must anyone haul in "love and last" and a lot of other orotund phrases which are quite...