Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frilly white lace affair with a high puffed collar and velvet ribbons -quite British and faintly Victorian. Lord Snowdon took the photograph of his wife sitting in the tall grass of what appeared to be a country meadow (actually part of their Kensington Palace gardens in downtown London), and there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek involved. Princess Margaret would soon be off to Tokyo to open British Week, a promotion-exposition aimed at persuading the Japanese to buy ?150 million worth of British goods next year...
Better, indeed. In half a dozen.American cities this month, British Overseas Airways Corp. began promoting a $350 round-trip air excursion to England that included more than the usual palace-to-pub tour. BOAC's 13-day "The Beautiful Singles of London" tour offered Yankee tourists the added incentive of meeting three "scientifically chosen" British dates at airline-organized cocktail parties. There was even more in store for those who signed...
Leading Questions. The worst was yet to come. A London scandal sheet reported that the firm tentatively contacted -but not actually hired-to do the "scientific" matching was a fly-by-night, husband-wife outfit operating out of a one-room office next to a fish-and-chips shop, apparently without even the benefit of a computer. The firm's "managing director" offered samples of questionnaires he had used in previous matchmaking schemes. Typical inquiries included: "Do you consider yourself sexy?" "Do you consider sex important?" "Have you a very strong sexual urge?" "Are you against premarital relationships...
Completely undone by the unexpected publicity, BOAC last week abruptly canceled the controversial flights. It was all just as well. Despite attractive advertising, only two Americans had signed on to swing with the beautiful people in London, the airline admitted, and both of them were women...
...Patriot for Me; his hero, played by Maximilian Schell, is a homosexual secret-service officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who is blackmailed into spying for the Russians. The "drag ball" scene that opens the second act has been a titillating conversation piece ever since the play premiered in London in 1965. Murderous Angels probes the motives and characters of Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjold as seen by Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was himself in the Congo as head of U.N. operations in Katanga...