Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast did American and its allies move that they precipitated a moral crisis in London's financial community. The City's "Takeover Board" charged that Morgan Grenfell and Cazenove had violated its code. But shortly thereafter, the board admitted that it really had no enforcement powers. At week's end the City was treated to the spectacle of an emasculated board that reversed itself and decided that the companies in question "were within the letter and spirit of the code." American had won Gallaher's. But the end result seemed likely to be the establishment...
...trying to change that image. This fall, through an exclusive link-up with British European Airways, it will initiate "Silver Wing Tours," offering a choice of low-cost package tours to no fewer than 97 vacation spots. The minimum price will be $89.60 for a 14-day trip from London to Mallorca and back, including lodging, meals and free information that can be gained from Cook's expert agency. Cook's expects to pick up 250,000 to 300,000 customers for such inclusive tours...
Monumental Mosaic. Biographer Scarisbrick, a lecturer in history at the University of London, does not try to resolve the contradictions in Henry's character so much as to make them comprehensible, balancing them against each other and putting them in their complex historical perspectives. This sounds unexciting-and it is. Scarisbrick's study is no swashbuckler, but a sober, patient amassing of significant details. For the nonspecialist it becomes tedious at times, as when Scarisbrick expounds canon law or traces a dense web of diplomatic maneuvering; but in the end it adds up to a monumental mosaic that...
...came up with the idea last summer while working in London for the summer. Katz had always admired the aristocratic lines of the London hacks, but it wasn't until late last summer when he had a few weeks to go camping in the north of England that he had the time and the money...
...importing London taxi cabs and selling them to people with $1800 on their hands or businesses like banks. Now why didn't you think of that...