Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count at week's end showed that Labor dropped 1,282 borough council seats, while the Conservatives gained 1,295. Steelmaking Sheffield, for 40 years a Labor fief, fell to the Tories; so did Norwich, after 35 years of Labor rule. London went solidly Conservative as Labor lost 16 boroughs, holding on to a mere four...
...London will also be the site of preliminary peace talks beginning this week. After more than nine months of fighting between Nigeria and the secessionist government of Biafra, the two sides agreed last week to meet there and try to pick a site for full-scale peace negotiations, probably somewhere in Africa. Any talks face formidable difficulties: Nigeria insists that Biafra rejoin the country and be split up into three states; Biafra demands that it retain some form of sovereignty in order to protect its 8,500,000 Ibo tribesmen...
Visitors are always told to keep back from the cages, but Britain's Prince Philip was too curious to be cautious. He pressed up close to the bar for a good look at the orangutans during his visit to the London Zoo. At that precise moment, one of the apes-Napoleon by name-relieved himself in the direction of His Royal Highness. Later, at a luncheon for the Royal Zoological Society, Philip apologized for "any faint whiff of animal which might be emanating from my end of the room. We have just been visiting some orangutans," said...
Streamlined it isn't. "It looks," observed the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes." But never mind. The Cubicar, an almost perfectly cubic car manufactured by Britain's Universal Power Drives Ltd., could well become the commuter car of the future. In the age of the traffic jam, when both road space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort...
...could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak since the April 1 reopening of the London gold market...