Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veins of excitement. The guards now change at Buckingham Palace to a Lennon and McCartney tune, and Prince Charles is firmly in the longhair set. In Harold Wilson, Downing Street sports a Yorkshire accent, a working-class attitude and a tolerance toward the young that includes Pop Singer "Screaming" Lord Sutch, who ran against him on the Teen-Age Party ticket in the last election. Mary Quant, who designs those clothes, Vidal Sassoon, the man with the magic comb, and the Rolling Stones, whose music is most In right now, reign as a new breed of royalty. Disks...
...Hour Delay. Off to Portugal rushed Lord Walston, British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The Portuguese, who make no secret of their support for Smith, only shrugged, refusing to interrupt "normal commerce" in Mozambique. Back in London, the Wilson government requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and began drafting a resolution that-if approved-would give U.N. sanction to the use of British force in stopping Rhodesia-bound...
...with other Black African nations opposed to Ian Smith, Keita was trying to buy time, and to draw up some stiffer amendments calling for total mandatory sanctions that would be enforced mainly by the British. Growing more impatient by the hour, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg met with British Representative Lord Caradon and delegates from nine other member nations, and the group staged a 61-hour sit-in in the Security Council chamber in an effort to get Keita to call the meeting. When it finally convened at week's end-40 hours later than Britain requested-the pro-British...
Last month Benenson was in Rhodesia bringing suit to reverse the summary deportation of the London Observer's correspondent. This week Amnesty is sending a 25-year-old Labor peer, Lord Gifford, to discuss with Hungary's Communist officials the recent arrest of 20 Roman Catholic priests and 50 workers on flimsy charges of agitation against the state...
...Lord Jeffs are usually a solid team with good depth. Although Harvard crushed them in 1965, Coach Cooney Weiland says he fears Amherst far more than he does the other two teams. M.L.T. is usually the easiest squad on Harvard's schedule, and Weiland isn't worrying about Friday's match with the Engineers...