Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNCTION. Another London slum saga based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins spelled out new fiscal measures that are the most se vere since the Depression year of 1930. They will levy on already heavily bur dened Britons a total of $4 billion in new taxes during the next 21 months. Said the Times of London: "Nasty-but necessary...
Coeds & Cadets. Outside of the service academies at West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs and New London, only three colleges remain as all-male institutions in which every student must be a cadet: The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute and Vermont's Norwich University. Three others (Texas A. & M., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Pennsylvania's PMC Colleges) have made the cadet corps optional for men. To the dismay of combat-toughened alumni, they have also admitted coeds to all civilian courses. The seventh school, North Georgia College, has always enrolled women. The combined cadet enrollment at the seven has suffered...
...fans call her, went on the air only seven months ago, she is already pulling 500 letters a week filled with questions as well as the remains of stricken leaves, buds and twigs. She doesn't mind picking through the "deb-ree"; as an archaeologist trained at the London School of Economics, she has been digging around in the ground for one purpose or another most of her adult life. The wife of Hugh Mencken, curator of European archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she lives in a rambling clapboard house in suburban Boston, which is happily "overwhelmed...
...result was the greatest gold rush in history. Almost all of the demand fell upon the London gold pool, through which the central banks of the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands had for 6½years maintained the free-market price of bullion at its $35-per-oz. monetary level. Between Britain's Nov. 18 devaluation and March 15, when the London market was closed at the U.S.'s request, the buying stampede drained the pool of some $2.5 billion of gold - nearly 2½times the amount mined in California during...