Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before taking the thankless job of running Britain's rattling railways, genial but tough Richard Beeching raised a public storm last year by insisting that the government match the salary that he got as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries: $67,000. That was 2½ times what his...
To present-day Englishmen, the British Imperial System does not mean the White Man's Burden but something very nearly as outdated: a labyrinthine heritage of weights and measures that would long since have driven a less hardy race to dementia or to decimals.
Last week, after nearly 150 years of discussing reform, the House of Commons debated a weights and measures bill no less momentous than the Act of 1824 that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon...
Macy's made its centerpiece a 50-year-old, horse-drawn delivery wagon. Riders competed not only for the Schaefer (beer) Working Hunter Stake, the Scandinavian Airlines International Jumping Stake, the Revlon Special Jumper's Trophy, but-final irony-the Imperial (Chrysler) Challenge Trophy for jumpers. And the...
Primitive as West New Guinea is, Indonesia's President Sukarno is determined to keep it as his own hobby. Hours after the changeover from Dutch to U.N. control, a planeload of Indonesian officials flew into Hollandia to "help" the U.N. They promised the moon: $100 million worth of development...