Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle spent a cordial half-hour with his old friend and antagonist. Sir Winston Churchill. Addressing the combined Houses of Parliament in the high-raftered magnificence of Westminster Hall, he launched into an eloquent, 20-minute address that proved to be a long paean of praise for things British. Almost wistfully, De Gaulle noted that "with you, in the political field, tradition, loyalty and the rules of the game are so strong that your government is quite naturally endowed with cohesion and endurance. Your Parliament, for the duration of each legislature, has an assured majority, and the government and this...
...saffron robes of a Buddhist monk and retired into a monastery outside Rangoon for four days' silent contemplation. Then, wrapped again in his traditional, pale blue longyi and looking uncommonly mellow for the rough old campaigner he is, U Nu stepped last week before a Parliament in which his Union Party had won a thumping two-thirds majority in last February's elections, and proclaimed: "We are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past...
...needed. In the first month after he took over last December, stubby, handsome Frank Erasmus issued banning orders on eight people, an alltime record. And when last week the government decided to outlaw the only two African organizations of any substance, it was stiff, humorless Erasmus who stood in Parliament to introduce the legislation. The son of a Boer farmer, Erasmus was trained for the law, but plunged into Afrikaner politics at 30, attaching himself to a then obscure leader named Daniel...
...world tour (India, Iraq, Soviet satellites, U.A.R., Africa and Cuba), his third in three years. Behind him he left a country bogged in inflationary chaos, a nasty diplomatic quarrel with Peking, a desultory but costly rebellion, and fresh political confusion created by his last-minute appointment of a new Parliament to replace the elected...
Instead, the few filters already on the market (e.g., Brown & Williamson's Viceroy and Benson & Hedges' Parliament) began to get hot. Reynolds was ready with its own filter, developed under a team consisting of Chairman John C. Whitaker, President Ed Darr and new Sales Chief Bowman Gray. The man who had seen filters coming was Darr, who was impressed by their popularity in Switzerland during a vacation. But the man who decided when to roll was Gray. Reynolds' test panel had smoked 250 versions of the trial Winston over two years when Gray took a puff of a new blend...