Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfy speculators' greed. In a telephoned message to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, the U.S. asked Britain to close the London gold market and shut off the flow from the Gold Pool. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hurried to Buckingham Palace for a midnight meeting with Queen Elizabeth, who declared a bank holiday in foreign-exchange trading. That shut off the Gold Pool's dealing, and money markets from Singapore to Lusaka followed suit. The Paris market alone stayed open...
...about that peculiar-talking outlander with the sissy haircut. Doesn't Bobby know that the ancestors of those deprived mountaineers left the crags of Wales and the glens of Scotland while his forebears were still sharing the parlor peatfire with the pigs? Their English may hark back to Elizabeth I, as do their music and customs, and they may live on poke salad and fatback, but in some ways they are better off than the rest...
...guilt of the men, two of whom, James Dhlamini and Victor Mlambo, had murdered a white farmer in a Mau Mau-style ambush and the third of whom, Duly Shadrack, had axed a native chief to death in the bush. But by blatantly ignoring the mercy move of Queen Elizabeth, to whom they still claimed to profess fealty, the leaders of the runaway colony also applied the hangman's noose to the few fragile hopes that still remained for a reconciliation with Britain...
...dinner in Eliot House last night, Finley informed his boys of the appointment, and cried "Floreat domus de Eliot" (Let Eliot House bloom). Heimert answered, "Following Master Finley will be like getting into the wake of the Queen Elizabeth in a rowboat." They then sat down with a bottle of Italian champagne...
Died. Stanley Berman, 41, Brooklyn cab driver and self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gate-Crasher"; of a blood infection; in Brooklyn. No occasion was too exclusive, no dignitary too aloof for Berman, who posed as a waiter to demand Queen Elizabeth II's autograph during her 1957 visit, crashed J.F.K.'s Inaugural Ball in 1961, and had his finest moment in 1962 when he charged onstage to hand Bob Hope an Oscar in front of 100 million TV watchers...