Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 39, younger brother of reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Joan Douglas Dillon, 32, daughter of Investment Banker C. Douglas Dillon, onetime U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; she for the second time; in Guildford, England...
Married. Robert Bolt, 42, British playwright (A Man for All Seasons) and Oscar-winning film scenarist (Doctor Zhivago); and Sarah Miles, 24, British actress (Blow-Up); he for the second time; in Woking, England...
...American colonists were barely ashore before they began casting about for ways to make their new homes attractive. In Puritan New England, crude portraits were being limned by anonymous painters as early as 1641; in Pennsylvania, settlers from the Palatinate were soon decorating birth certificates and family records with elaborate Fraktur flowers and birds, a practice derived from Gothic manuscripts...
...unmarketed in North America, the 1000 MB sells at hard-currency prices ranging from $1,195 in West Germany to $1,350 in Austria and about $1,500 in England (purchase taxes account for the cost differential). It is easier for a foreigner to buy a Skoda than for a Czech, since the government places a high priority on exports. The list price for a 1000 MB in Czechoslovakia is 45,600 crowns, or $3,040, and the waiting period is more than three years. Even so, some 160,000 Czechs have already put down deposits averaging $1,300 each...
Some 20th century radical movements have been founded in the name of Karl Marx, others in the name of Christ. But not many try to espouse the ideals of both. One of the rare exceptions is England's New Left Catholics, a coterie of Cambridge-educated intellectuals who advocate a social revolution that is both Communist and Christian. Not content to condemn capitalism as a moral evil, they also denounce the British Labor Party as the tired-blood expression of a bourgeois working class. In their view, the church is equally obsolescent in structure and needs to be seriously...