Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daddy Ni died six years ago, never having seen Richard in a play or movie. He tried once?setting out to see My Cousin Rachel when it was playing in a Port Talbot cinema. On the way down the valley he stopped in 17 pubs. Finally settled in the theater, he watched the film begin. One of the first things Richard did on the screen was to pour himself a drink. "That's it," said Daddy Ni, and he was up and off to pub...
...London police on robbery detail stopped a seedy little man for routine questioning and seemed to have stumbled on the solution of a murder in Portsmouth, 65 miles away. Harold Loughan-a brash habitual criminal-volunteered the information that he had crept into the rooms above the John Barleycorn pub three weeks before and, in committing a robbery, had strangled to death the pub's owner, Rose Robinson. "It's a relief to get it off my mind," he told the police. "I didn't mean to kill the old girl, but you know what...
...interior columns. The structure has tall, tapered concrete columns with exposed brackets that hold precast, prestressed concrete girders. The girders, 7 ft. high by 34 ft. long, will have designs on them to give them scale and to express their purpose as structural members. > The Woodrow Wilson School of Pub lic and International Affairs, at Prince ton, which Yamasaki designed to express "the nobility of public service." The scheme consists of 60 white precast columns, 28 ft. high, which will provide support for the upper floor. This will enable the lower floor to have nonbearing walls, with majestic spaces...
...Nations? For all the uproar over Skybolt, the man in the pub was more worried about job security than the tenuous protection that nuclear weapons might buy. The Briton who had never had it so good in 1959 is bitterly aware today that the island is again in danger of being splintered into "two nations": the prosperous south and the chronically blighted north, where shipbuilding, mining and other ailing 19th century industries are concentrated. Britain's admission to the Common Market may in the long run ease its economic woes. But Macmillan's critics blame Britain...
...pub near Shannon Airport, a newly landed Irish-American couple listened to the rich, incomprehensible patois of the regulars at the bar. "Just listen, Harry," breathed the wife. "They're talking Gaelic!" Actually, they were talking German. What the U.S. tourists did not realize was that the "natives" were squireens from West Germany who, like scores of their compatriots, have been eagerly buying up cut-rate Irish real estate...