Word: london
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many of Nixon's remarks were not translated at all; in Pravda the vice presidential contribution was cut to five sentences. Pravda edited Khrushchev too, but judiciously, e.g., his patently false boast that Russian workers could afford the U.S. exhibition's $14,000 demonstration home. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "There can be no doubt that the Russian version aimed at presenting [Nixon] as a feeble and defensive debater in the face of a righteous and rumbustious Mr. Khrushchev...
...Take two shots," was the standard order to London Sunday Dispatch photographers, "one for England, the other for Ireland." In a sizzling heat wave, the photographers were out on the bathing-suit beat, and while the average British daily carried enough cheesecake for a Berlin banquet, editions exported to Ireland featured proper young women in street clothes. There was no alternative: Roman Catholic Ireland's law and custom have long forced Irish newspapers to adopt one of the most rigorous self-censorships of any free press in the world...
...their Irish editions, English editors usually kill the sex-and-scandal stories they so favor at home. The Empire News recently killed a series headed YES, VICAR . . . I'M HAVING A BABY, substituted SAVED DE VALERA FROM THE FIRING SQUAD. London's lip-smacking The People last week shelved a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a two-piece bathing suit, substituted one of the triple wedding of some County Mayo girls. Says a Dublin newsman: "When you see an English paper writing about Lourdes or the Irish saints, you can bet that the space in home editions...
...Cooper-Climax is the product of a small British company that grew out of a garage started in 1919 by Charles Newton Cooper in Surbiton, eleven miles southwest of London. After World War II, Cooper and his son John, an intense, black-haired designer-engineer, got the speed bug and set out to develop a small, cheap racing car powered by a motorcycle engine. Gradually the cars grew faster, but they still used largely hand-me-down engines. At one point the Coopers used a four-cylinder Coventry Climax engine originally designed to pump water for fire fighters. Rebored...
Strolling through the terminal at London Airport recently, ex-Navy Secretary Charles Thomas, 61, now boss of Trans World Airlines, was approached by a TWA captain. Blurted the captain: "I just wanted to thank you for turning a losing team into a winning one." Charlie Thomas shared the captain's relief. When he took over as president and chief executive officer of TWA just a year ago, the line was flying low and slow; it had operated without a president for six months, had lost close to $12 million. Last week TWA was back to cruising altitude, thanks...