Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which leaves Queen Elizabeth and her cousin in an embarrassing position. As temporal head of the Church of England, the Queen can hardly be expected to give her happy consent to the marriage of a divorced earl and a woman who is her self a divorcee. Happily, however, the question may not be put to her. There is another way out: the earl and his lady may marry without royal consent if he first informs the Privy Council of his intentions, then waits one year. Or the earl may follow the example of George III's own sons, marry...
...child in England, Campbell had rheumatic fever, and it affected his heart. During World War II, he was invalided out of the Royal Air Force after he had been accepted for pilot training. All his young life he lived in the shadow of a robust, rich and famous father: Sir Malcolm Campbell, gentleman sportsman, holder of nine world land-speed records and three water-speed records, knighted by King George V. Even after Sir Malcolm died, in his bed at 64, the shadow remained. Donald sought out mediums, trying to contact his father-sometimes, he claimed, with success: "There...
...plagued by self-doubt, Campbell kept talking himself into retirement and right back out again. "Donald," says a psychiatrist who knew him, "was always trying to prove himself to himself and to his father and to the world." Last week, on Coniston Water, a small, deep lake in northwest England, Donald Campbell, 45, tried for yet another water-speed record in a jet-powered Bluebird hydroplane designed to skim the surface on two 6-in. sponsons fastened to the pontoons. His goal: 300 m.p.h., a speed realm that no one had ever touched. Playing solitaire on the night before...
...Brown & Williamson subsidiary to Tom Toms in Malawi-on sale in over 150 countries, BAT is the world's biggest, most profitable (1965 earnings: $230 million) tobacco company. But BAT needs a sizable British business to help balance highly taxed foreign earnings (it sells no tobacco in England) and, not least, to ensure its growth against a leveling off of tobacco sales because of the health scare...
...Christian duty of political and social involvement, and the necessity of sacramental worship. Thoroughly ecumenical, the lona Community includes Anglicans, Congregationalists, Baptists and Methodists as well as Presbyterians, and many of MacLeod's ideas have been adopted by such ecclesiastical experimenters as the Anglican worker-priests of England and the Protestant brotherhood of Taizé in France (TIME, Sept...