Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a gaunt Anthony Grey, home in London, came the description of a drab solitude "much worse than anyone can imagine." Grey, the best known of the three (and last week awarded the Order of the British Empire), was confined for 26 months in his Peking home-mostly in one room-solely in retaliation for the arrest of Communist Chinese agitators in Hong Kong during the riots of 1967. Describing "the worst moment of my two years" in an interview with a Reuters colleague, Grey told of the hot August night shortly after his capture, when some 200 Red Guards...
...each day by dictating faintly remembered news stories into a make-believe telephone. "Oh, Miss Jones," the ritual began, "I've got a good lead for today." When he had finished "filing" the story, he sometimes put in another imaginary call-to his 25-year-old daughter in London. He found the perfect use for China's stiff brown toilet paper: he made himself a deck of cards out of it and played solitaire...
...quick press conferences, all three clammed up with further details on their experiences, saving them for books and articles they planned to write. Grey kept a diary for just that purpose and is already in print with the first of a three-part series in this week's London Sunday sensation sheet, The People, which is being syndicated in Europe and Australia as well. The price reportedly paid was well over $25,000-a lot of money, perhaps, but earned the hard...
...traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact, all the company has to offer in support of this is a hole in the ground," warned the London Times...
...extending his successful leasing activities into other areas and adding insurance and data-processing operations, he has built the company into a business with assets of $400 million. When Steinberg, a tall and portly man, announced last summer that he intended to make a $60 million bid for the London scientific publishing house of Pergamon Press Ltd., Britons viewed him as a brash Yankee millionaire-one of those action sculptors who hammer out free-form conglomerates. This impression was fortified by Leasco's on-again, off-again tactics. After withdrawing the offer in a falling-out with Pergamon...