Word: london
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...builders of Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused to make predictions and many of London's "turf accountants," i.e., bookies, were refusing to handle election bets. At week's end those who would were offering odds of 5-to-3 against Labor...
...third time since early last year, Actress Sarah Churchill, 44, was hauled in by the law for public drunkenness. This time, in London, she got off with a $5.60 fine, after a constable testified that Sir Winston's daughter "appeared to be trying to hold a sort of political meeting" all by herself in a local snack...
...court, the Bembas had massive support. To plead their case, topflight Barrister Charles Russell, Q.C., carefully briefed by Catholic churchmen, had flown in from London. Listening intently in the tiny courtroom was Catholic Bishop Francis Mazzieri of Ndola, and packed beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving...
...Future. British officials were not necessarily on the side of the missionaries; colonial administrators like to preserve native institutions in order to govern through them. But virtually all missionaries in Africa, Catholic or Protestant, agreed with London's Catholic Tablet that 1) Christianity should have the same freedom of action in Rhodesia that all religions have in England; 2) in religious matters, native missionaries should be as immune from tribal laws as white missionaries...
...last summer Jasper & Co.'s empire numbered 14 companies worth $42 million. It was ready for its biggest deal: the take-over of London's powerful real-estate firm, Lintang Investments, which owns the biggest block of apartments (1,200) in Britain. Jasper bought 51% of Lintang's stock from the company, offered to buy all other outstanding, publicly held shares in a $20 million deal. While Lintang was pending, Jasper also offered to buy up the stock, worth about $4,000,000, in Cardiff's Ely Brewery (259 pubs...