Word: relic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sullivan, Tarzan's favorite lane in the Africa that was) turns the coup into a coo with John Leyton, a stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when he raises his glass in a brusque farewell toast to the glories of Empire, then hurls drink and all at a portrait of the Queen...
Question #5 would "curb the Governor's Council" by taking away its authority over contracts and leases and most gubernatorial appointments. A relic of days when the Bay Colony hemmed and hawed with the Hanoverians, the Council has consistently thrown up hurdles to administrative harmony and efficiency. Also, its ratifying function invites corruption. Passage of Question #5 is essential to vigorous executive government...
Spreading the Risks. Always cautious, Chartered has taken care not to be left as a ruined relic of empire. Ever since taking office in 1962, the company's president, Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans, 70, a former Conservative M.P., has been busily spreading the risks: of total investments of $186 million, only $32 million is now in Northern Rhodesia. The wide-ranging portfolio includes, in addition to British companies, minority holdings in South African gold mines, Italian rubber manufacturing, Australian and New Zealand aluminum, Canada's Hudson's Bay Co., and several U.S. companies. Nevertheless, Chartered is bracing...
...aimed at the future, the brand new twin-engined plane rolled out on the test runway at Convair's San Diego plant last week looked like a relic of the past. The tiny (34 ft. long) Charger seemed to be a stubby cousin of World War II's P-38 Lightning...
...relic was placed on the lead float of a mile-long procession, which began a parade through the city while flocks of pigeons and sparrows were released from cages.* Also swirling overhead: thousands of round paper disks representing Buddha's "wheel of life," air-dropped by chartered Cessna. Lining the parade route, sustaining themselves on peanuts, soda pop and peppered fish sticks, were 250,000 spectators. As the Buddhists celebrated the 2,508th year of Buddha's birth and the first anniversary of their successful campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem, they plainly showed themselves a growing force...