Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family assembled at the site for a formal, unannounced ceremony. Jacqueline Kennedy arrived clutching a bouquet of lilies of the valley. Lyndon Johnson, invited by Bobby and Jacqueline Kennedy, shared his outsized umbrella with Bobby in the chill, driving rain. Once again, Cushing's unforgettable nasal, New England accent broke the stillness at Arlington Cemetery: "Be at peace, dear Jack, with your tiny infants by your side, until we all meet again above this hill and beyond the stars...
...return only once every two or three years, bones up on a little red notebook in which he keeps the names of patrons, their physical characteristics and their songs. With a spotlight trained on his hands, he sometimes plays Mozart and Chopin, remembered from his days at the New England Conservatory. Like all cocktail pianists, he is philosophical about lack of attention. "When they don't listen," he says, "I listen myself...
...Like Flint is the further adventures of a far-out secret agent who makes James Bond look like the stately Holmes of England. In Our Man Flint (TIME, Feb. 4, 1966), James Coburn's screwball skills put some spin into a sluggish scenario. But even he cannot defuse this bomb of a sequel...
...Britain's political pantheon stands one statue raffishly askew, absurd finger-curls atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on its decidedly un-English face. Benjamin Disraeli was as unlikely a Prime Minister as England ever had, as prodigal a son as the mother of parliaments ever spawned. During nearly 40 years of Tory leadership, he was hated with rare passion by his enemies, notably Liberal Leader William Gladstone, and often only barely trusted by his own lieutenants. Intrigued more by power than principle, too cynically clever by half in an age craving sober dignity in its statesmen...
...breakthrough in European technology has come in private industry -- in large supranational firms, Heath said. As examples he pointed to Franco-British cooperation on the supersonic jet Concorde, and the joint effort of England and Belgium to develop atomic reactors. These are cases, he said, in which the scale of the undertaking makes it impossible for one nation to handle the entire load by itself...