Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elementary school chorus. It was indeed, but more for the purpose of attracting tourists than accommodating traffic. The city of London had sold its slowly sinking span for stone-by-stone reconstruction in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., a new town of 3,000 on the Colorado River, and Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, was there for the cornerstone laying. Resplendent in black velvet and heavy gold braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including that noted Tory Barry Go Id water. Next...
...cent of the state) has officially disbanded, most of its serious politicos have joined the newly founded Delaware Conference of Concerned Democrats. The new group has long-range hopes of taking over the conservative state organization now controlled by Gov. Charles Terry Jr. Led by activist housewife Mrs. Gilbert Sloan, the Concerned Democrats are backing liberal congressional candidate Harris MacDowell and trying to reform state election procedures. Party elections come...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel...
...sign up for the Summer School Tour of Cape Cod and Vicinity, including guided tour of of historic Plymouth, Mayflower II, Plimouth Plantation plus Falmouth, swimming at Hyannis Port, dinner at the Yachtsman, concluding with the performance of J. Offenbach's La Perichole by the Oberelin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players on Saturday. Tickets and details at 4 Matthews Hall. $13 per person...
...often and so roundly as Britain's House of Lords. Harold Macmillan called it "a mausoleum." Winston Churchill went him several better, denouncing the Lords as "one-sided, hereditary, unpurged, unrepresentative, irresponsible, absentee." Plans to emasculate the upper house are just as common today as they were in Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe, in which the Lord Chancellor complained: "Ah, my lords, it is indeed painful to have to sit upon a woolsack which is stuffed with such thorns as these." Anachronistic as it may be, the House of Lords demonstrated last week that it can still make...