Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stiff-upper-lip comment. Says one American general in Germany: "It has never impacted on readiness." Rear Admiral Hogg thinks the Navy is just as shipshape with mothers on board. Says he: "The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman." Aye, aye, sir...
...ground troops were involved. But, Kissinger says, casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion at home. The May 4 killing of four students at Kent State...
...respected Economist (circ. 66,000), regional editions of TIME (78,000) and Newsweek (40,000), as well as six London Sunday papers (combined circ. 18,300,000) that are sped overnight on Britain's excellent rail system to steepled hamlets from Dover to Dundee. Last week Sir James Goldsmith, 46, pugnacious publisher (France's weekly L'Express) and multimillionaire food tycoon, set out to prove the cynics wrong...
...music and plot filled in either by stage gimmickry or by Sellars' own entertaining, if self-conscious, narration. He uses good commercial recordings of the works, and provides surprisingly good reproduction for them. The cutting is drastic, though, and will disturb those who know the music too well. Sir Thomas Beecham used to complain of the "bleeding chunks of Wagner" played by symphony orchestras as excerpts; Sellars' adaptations are hamburger meat...
...past two years) has cut the price of U.S. properties. Though Howard Johnson's management will stay on, the firm is expected to be more aggressive in marketing and expanding, notably on the tight little island where Baskin-Robbins already does a licking good business. Says Imperial Chairman Sir John Pile: "I would expect a Howard Johnson's presence in Britain before too long...