Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN. Edward Albee transfers a bleak comedy by the late Giles Cooper from England to U.S. suburbia. Barry Nelson and Barbara Bel Geddes play a couple who can't make ends meet until she finds a career in the world's oldest profession...
...With Europe cut off from much of its Middle East oil, other sources had to be located rapidly. Campbell diverted Jersey tankers at sea and chartered others, kept the region fueled with a pipeline of ships bringing oil from the Western Hemisphere. At one point Esso's Fawley, England, refinery was handling a mid-American grade of oil called Rocky Mountain Sour that had never before been seen in Europe...
...recently as 1965, according to a survey by University of Manchester Professor Kenneth Simmonds, only 59 Europeans were among the 3,733 executives in Europe for 150 U.S. companies. Now the ratio is changing rapidly. The Earl of Cromer, for instance, until recently governor of the Bank of England, is the new chairman of IBM United Kingdom. Dr. Frederick H. Boland, the man who as United Nations General Assembly President broke a gavel in 1960 trying to silence Nikita Khrushchev, is chairman of Esso Ireland. Though names help, such executives are less and less anxious to be figureheads. "If they...
...Venezuelan, 86 Britons, 21 Germans, 16 Frenchmen, 14 Italians, ten Belgians, ten Norwegians, nine Swedes, eight Dutchmen, two Danes, two Swiss, one Finn and one Maltese, who all work comfortably together with English as their lingua Esso. Jersey resettled them with even a pamphlet of helpful translations: diapers in England are called nappies, and a hot-water heater is a geyser...
...Fourth of July, and it is so transparently simple that neither its ideas nor ambiguities will startle anyone. Since it runs a course from the Boer War to Dunkirk and sticks to a small rural valley and about 100 characters, it may well be the swan-song novel of England's squirearchy...