Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared to elephant hunting in the jungles of Mysore or bullfighting in Toledo, it should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer...
...inflation by demanding higher wages, opposing automation, and restricting entry by younger workers. Roughly two-thirds of all dockworkers are now over 40. Their whole system of payment is geared to heavy wages for overtime and much lower pay for normal hours. By "welting"--taking shifts at the local pub on company time--workers are able to prolong work until the weekend when they will receive higher rates. Some companies are so "dispirited" by these costly delays, says Sir William McFalzean, chairman of the British National Exports Council, "that they give up the struggle in export markets...
Unmoved by such criticism, Diefenbaker declared: "To those of you who suggest I step down, I'm going to call to your minds a statement once made by Winston Churchill, 'I ain't going till the pub closes...
...slightly Canadianized version of Sir Winston's "I leave when the pub closes...
...death, Adolph Ochs arranged that both papers would stay in the family. With only one child, Iphigene, that was not easy, but Ochs managed. Iphigene made an excellent marriage, to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, son of a cotton-textile manufacturer, and Son-in-Law Sulzberger made an excellent successor as pub lisher, president and ultimately board chairman of the New York Times. Furthermore, he had four children himself. And they got married and had children. After Ochs died in 1935, Arthur Hays Sulzberger was able to say that "the tradition carries...