Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, four Guardia Civil officers in the Basque country were lured to a remote area by a report that the outlawed red, white and green flag of the separatists was flying over a Roman Catholic monastery. A dynamite charge, set in the rocks at roadside, blew their Land Rover 60 ft. into the air; three officers were killed and the fourth was seriously wounded...
...industrial Midlands town of Darlaston, eight miles north of begrimed Birmingham. The headquarters of Britain's largest privately held company, Rubery Owen Holdings, Ltd., the Darlaston plants are among the country's largest suppliers of components to the British automobile industry: frames for Jaguar, axles for Rover, gasoline tanks for Rolls-Royce. The plants are also the foundation of a family empire established by A.E. Owen in 1893 that now includes some 20 companies in seven countries. The Darlaston plant alone accounted for more than $56 million in sales last year; the group as a whole grossed some...
...season feature the same old guns, rape, murder and arson? Yup. But with a difference. This fall the networks have agreed that between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Eastern Time (6 to 8 Central Tune) is to be "family time," when Mom, Pop, the kids and Rover can cluster round the tube assured that they are not going to be shocked or scared. The very notion summons up classic adventure stories and young people's concerts. Is TV finally beginning to grow...
...Secretary of State for Industry. His policy, called "Bennery" by his many critics, is to force cash-squeezed companies to accept government control in return for government bailout money. His biggest takeover so far is of British Leyland, the nation's largest auto-and truckmaker (Austin Morris, Rover, Jaguar, Triumph), which could not raise funds for plant modernization. The Labor government has already committed $2.2 billion to Leyland, but the total outlay may exceed $6 billion. The rescue plan, however, does not call for cutting back employment, though overmanning is one of Leyland's chief handicaps. Similarly, Benn...
Locke, in any case, is lost. He does not find the guerrillas, and frustrations are so pressing that they bring him to his knees beside his stalled Land Rover, crying "All right, I don't care," into the vastness of the desert. In all this emptiness, Antonioni can make him seem hopelessly imprisoned...