Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handful of colleges and clubs, who understand the complexities of cricket. They think it rather keen to serve the batsman "googlies" and "yonkers" and play positions called "second slip," "gully" and "silly mid-on." What is more, the very best of them were over in England last week impertinently challenging the masters to a match. They got a hearty welcome. Except for the U.S., cricket has spread around the empire, with frequently embarrassing results. Twice running, in 1963 and 1966, the West Indies beat England in test matches, and the English have not managed a victory over Australia since...
INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE. Journalists from around the world report on civil war in Nigeria, the gypsy problem in England, pornography in Denmark, spas in Germany, driving in Russia...
News programs are devoted interminably to coverage of Cabinet meetings or scenes of officials dedicating schools and swimming pools. The International Herald Tribune described them as "the special kind of news in which the United States is alternately in the hands of race rioters or drum majorettes, where England is a country of eccentric peers, a sinking currency and constant tea breaks, and where France is a happy, if intensely boring, land whose only worry is that some damned foreigners might win a soccer match...
Dangerous Gamble. Jurors are not expected to buck directed verdicts. But in days gone by, they took more of a risk than did Solana. In 16th century England, the remote ancestor of today's directed verdict was called a writ of attaint; under it a judge could refuse to accept any jury verdict he did not like, no matter what the evidence. A new trial was then held, with a larger jury. If the new jury agreed with the judge, the original jurors could '"themselves be imprisoned and their wives and children thrust out of doors." That highhanded...
Frewen was still in good spirits when it came time to leave England. Farewelling boozily with his hunting and gambling friends and with the actress Lillie Langtry, a mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board...