Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...R.A.F., Clarke wrote an article called "Extraterrestrial Relays" for the magazine Wireless World. Heart of the piece was a detailed proposal for a synchronous communications satellite. Almost 20 years later, the device became a reality as Syncom 2. After the war, Clarke went to Kinks College in London, graduated with honors in physics and math, soon turned to writing full time...
...Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found the theosophist society the following year-and spent the rest of her life writing the society's doctrine. Controversial wherever she went, she was accused in 1885 by the Society for Psychical Research in London of fraud, forgery and even of spying for the czar...
...impeccably served alfresco lunches between rehearsals. Sprightly, blonde Barbara Ferris is the lissome young newspaper reporter sent to interview the great conductor. From then on, it seems, neither of them gets any work done, but they have a lot of fun twirling about in the vortex of a Technicolor London-little restaurants, antique shops, bed, concert halls...
Despite Britain's various economic ills, one thriving enterprise racked up record sales of over $60 million last year. This was Harrods department store, a venerable London institution, where a good portion of the total-some $14 million-was spent by non-British customers. Foreigners were so thick on the ground at Harrods earlier this month that, as Managing Director Alfred Spence recalls, "You were hard pressed to find English spoken in some departments." What brings them there is partly a feeling that shopping at Harrods is a dignified, particularly English experience...
Back in 1849, when Henry Charles Harrod opened his shop purveying tea, soap and candles in Knightsbridge Village, highway robberies were still common in the area. Today, Knightsbridge is one of London's swankiest sections and the most visible evidence of the tea merchant's modest business venture, a domed and terra cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace...