Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polanski, who was in London at the time of the murders, is noted for his macabre movies. He is no stranger to death : his mother died in a Nazi concentration camp. Polanski was spectacularly grief-stricken; five days after his wife's death, he still could not walk without assistance...
...guns in his glove compartment and an assortment of whips handy in his purple and black bedroom. An old girl friend, who said Sebring often asked to tie her up for whippings, reported that he also smoked marijuana. He and Sharon were once engaged, and shared an apartment in London's Eaton Square...
...Crown confiscated the rich lands of the rebels and brought in a flood of Scotch and English settlers in the famous "plantation of Ulster" in 1608. The seaport of Derry was handed over to the city of London and renamed Londonderry. Yet 30 years later the Ulster Irish were still strong enough to launch another uprising, under Owen Roe O'Neill. It grew so serious that it finally required the fire-and-sword scourging of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell...
...theme at the Second International Conference of Social Psychiatry in London was "The Sick Society," and double Nobel Prizewinner (Chemistry and Peace) Linus Pauling offered a novel cure for mankind's various ills. The world would be a better place, he said, if among other things, people could just get enough vitamin C. An optimal intake of the vitamin could mean a 10% improvement in physical and mental health. "What would be the consequences for the world," Pauling asked, "if the national leaders and the people as a whole were to think just 10% more clearly...
...pound hit a record low of $2.3813 in London, apparently because the Bank of England felt it safe to support the price at a lower level than the $2.3825 it usually tries to maintain as a floor. The value of the U.S. dollar dropped against the mark in Frankfurt but held steady elsewhere. The free-market price of gold moved scarcely at all-even though that volatile price is supposed to shoot up on any widespread doubts about the value of paper money...