Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resplendently gowned and crowned Queen Elizabeth last week opened the second Parliament of Harold Wilson's Labor government with a cool, clear reading of the "gracious speech" that traditionally limns the government's legislative hopes for a new session. The speech, prepared by Wilson, was a seven-minute catalogue of proposed measures from health to housing but was mainly notable for what it left out: any mention of the nationalization of Britain's steel industry...
...Wilson cared less about Heath's reaction than about that of Liberal Leader Jo Grimond, whose nine votes in the House provide the extra margin Labor needs to operate comfortably. Since the Liberals are dead set against steel nationalization, Wilson's omission was calculated-and successful. Welcoming Wilson's steel retreat, Grimond exulted: "It is recognized in the speech that the government no longer stands for socialism...
...child, she gave him dolls to play with and kept him away from other little boys and girls. When the Nazis invaded France, she begged her son to do anything that they asked in order to stay near her, rather than be shipped off to a forced-labor camp in Germany. When he returned, a hunted, hated collaborator, to her after the war, she hid him in the empty garret above her second-story apartment in a grim, redbrick building in a working-class suburb of Lille...
...major advantage of bonding is that it eliminates the need for a separate lining. This not only saves considerable labor and cost, but also does away with the loose linings that tend to bunch up in the sleeve or tear loose...
Died. Herbert Vere Evatt, 71, Australian Foreign Minister (1941-49) and Labor Party leader (1951-60), who took his Commonwealth nation out of Britain's shadow and gave it a more nationalistic foreign policy, becoming a spokesman for other less-powerful nations at the drafting of the U.N. Charter, but proved unsuccessful at home as head of the Opposition Labor Party, primarily because of his ultraliberal defense of many Communist causes (the 1954 Petrov spy scandal), which split the once-powerful Laborites and cost them every election since 1951; of pneumonia; in Canberra, Australia...