Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tradition of the amateur has other far-reaching effects on Britain's ability to compete in the world today, suggests the Royal Institute of International Affairs' Andrew Shon-field. "Upper-class manners-and it is these manners which set the tone for the whole community in Britain-are unsympathetic to the crudity and explicitness of performance." The result affects everything from the quality of technical education to precise manufacturing standards, and helps explain why the atavistic apprentice system persists, with its "myth of the craftsman and his incommunicable skills." Arthur Koestler agrees that "psychological factors and cultural attitudes...
Sweeping through a French-run rubber plantation called Binh Ba, 42 miles southeast of Saigon, looking for an ene my force that had mortared the Aussies' main headquarters, a 150-man company of the Royal Australian Regiment's 6th Battalion stumbled onto an estimated two Viet Cong battalions. In the first withering exchange of gunfire, all twelve men of the Australian leading group were killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting...
...formal occasions she wears hatty hats, motherly dressmaker suits, and for a handbag-a majestic holdall." The pussycats of London's fashion press were helping Britain's Princess Anne celebrate her 16th birthday with some swipes at her clothes. "All those conventions of British royal dress have been decanted on her," complained the London Sunday Express's writer, though conceding that Anne does have "the young idea when she's off duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair...
...Royal Nightmare. Not much else has changed for Streisand since she became the Funny Girl. Success hasn't spoiled her. It hasn't even convinced her. She got rave reviews and an S.R.O. Funny Girl run in London, but she was nightmarishly maladroit when she met Princess Margaret. Arriving late at the receiving line, she apologized to Her Royal Highness: "I got screwed up." She still worries that her cult of followers will desert her. "Barbra," says her producer-actor husband, Elliott Gould, "is the kind of person who is hurt if her puppy walks past...
...house of Samuel traced its wealth and station back to Viscount Bearsted's grandfather, the first Lord Bearsted, who founded the British half of Royal Dutch Shell. A conservative partnership, Samuel relied heavily on its money to make money, stuck to gilt-edged investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with...