Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy himself is a vocal proponent of this line of thought. "Nothing looks deader than the New England sugar maple in early February," he notes whimsically. "But in March the sap starts to rise and the tree surprises everyone by coming to life...
Unwelcome in the cradle of the British Commonwealth, where Asians and Negroes are all labeled as "colored immigrants" by a largely distrustful white population, the immigrants have turned to their own kind, formed large colored communities across England's Midlands and in London slums. Against the background of white resentment, the colored communities are growing restive. Last week 1,000 Pakistanis demonstrated in London against what they called the government's failure to redress the grievances of the Pakistani community. Much of their bitterness is justified. Colored doctors and nurses are a mainstay of Britain's nationalized...
Though he owns three small papers elsewhere in New England, he put his major effort into making a success of the Haverhill (Mass.) Journal. He started the paper in 1957, when the city's only other daily, the Gazette, was crippled by a strike. The Gazette continued to publish, but Loeb lured away its advertisers by offering them payments for long-term contracts. In 1965, after the Gazette sued Loeb for trying to put it out of business, a court ordered him to pay the Gazette $1,100,000; shortly after, he shut down the Journal...
...smaller army of civilian experts from the RAND Corp., who helped him to fend off admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim of inevitable change from personal rule to group rule. Charles lost his head. Hughes sold his TWA stock for $546.5 million...
...home again to revisit his ex-wife and child in the North Country, where he was born. With him is a migratory bird (Liza Minnelli) who has journeyed from America to be his secretary. Their trip rapidly becomes a descent into the hell of present-day materialistic England. Superhighways stretch on into meaningless dark. High-rise buildings hover like demons over the landscape. Friends talk past him, never...