Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forest comes to life again as Robin Hood (David Watson) and his band (Noel Harrison, Walter Slezak, Bruce Yarnell) make merrie to the music of Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Cast includes Roddy McDowall, Steve Forrest, Victor Buono, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., singing and swashbuckling through 12th century England...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography...
...future wife, Catherine ("Kitty") Atwater, a petite (5 ft. 4 in.), pretty Smith valedictorian who was studying comparative literature at Radcliffe. "I looked up and up," notes Kitty of their first encounter, "wondering when it was going to stop." In 1937, the day after their marriage, they sailed to England, where Galbraith was to study for a year at Cambridge under Keynes. Galbraith did not meet Keynes, who by then had suffered the first of several heart attacks, during that year, though he saw him often in Washington during World War II. But he did learn book and verse...
...William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), was proud to lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around...
...hundreds of spectators on England's Isle of Wight last week, it seemed for a moment as if the entire pier were suddenly roaring off into the water. What they actually witnessed, however, was the beginning of the maiden run of the SR.N4, the world's largest hovercraft. Driven by four 19½-ft. propellers and supported on a cushion of air, the 130-ft.-long, 76-ft.-wide craft moved smoothly into waters whipped into a frenzy by near-gale winds. As the London Times described it, "the huge amphibian lifted her skirts with commendable decorum...