Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer. Lamenting the "undue bunching of American and crime material immediately preceding the news," Lord Hill of Luton, chairman of the government-appointed Independent Television Authority, last week ordered ITV channels to rearrange their schedules. The new rules: "Between 8 and 9 p.m. on weekdays, not more than two programs a week should be American." Not that he was anti-American, explained Lord Hill, a physician who won fame a generation ago by dispensing friendly medical advice over the BBC. It was just that "the authority recognizes that this is an appropriate time for popular family programs, and wishes...
...shift in public opinion is doubtless due to Wilson's tough austerity measures intended to save the battered pound sterling. At week's end London was swept by rumors that the U.S. was withdrawing support from the pound and that the Bank of England's Lord Cromer had threatened to resign if the pound was not devalued. Wilson labeled the rumors false and "highly neurotic." Before setting off on a holiday in the Scilly Islands, he fired a Parthian shot at devaluation and Ted Heath. "I gather he has no plans to devalue the pound when...
...Steinway. Heath has lost only one battle in an ambitious life-to Charles de Gaulle, who vetoed Britain's entry into the Common Market in 1963. Then, as Harold Macmillan's Lord Privy Seal, Heath was conducting the negotiations in Brussels. He remains as convinced as ever that Britain's destiny lies with the Continent. Born on the Kentish coast within sight of "the mainland," as he calls Europe, Heath showed such early promise that he won a grant to Chatham House, a school at nearby Ramsgate. His flair for music got him the organ scholarship...
...Married. Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, 25, London insurance broker, tall (6 ft. 6 in.) handsome second son of Sir Winston's cousin the tenth Duke of Marlborough; and Texas Debutante Gillian Spreckels Fuller, 18, daughter of Fort Worth Oilman Andrew Fuller, and great-granddaughter of California Sugar King John D. Spreckels; in London, one year after they met at the Ascot races...
...thing he knew: that even if his church were the last on earth, he must stay at his post on the edge of the world and continue to work for the salvation of impious men-continue to work like an ox, like a laborer, like a king-like the Lord God Himself...