Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heartbreak Kid, is as funny as a schlemiel as he was as a Lothario; Bergen has never been more loose and natural; Mason is touching as a defeated man given a miraculous opportunity to close out life with a big win; and no less a figure than Sir John Gielgud is humorously on hand as the fussy manager of No. 11. This poised, stylish cast shines quite as impressively as the quarry in the vault. ∙Richard Schickel
Ford seems to understand this and he is clinging to his old lifestyle. He uses Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco, sometimes out of a can. After Daughter Susan and Photographer David Kennerly gave Ford his new pup, Liberty, the President stuffed some dog biscuits into his pockets. As plain folks know, the new master of a golden retriever should pass out the rewards and feed the dog for a few weeks. The President is going to have crummy pockets for a while, and when the White House cook gives Ford his English muffins in the morning, Ford is going...
...favor of his friend, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, 56, who won a measure of fame as a skillful negotiator between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Heath's delay in announcing his intention, however, allowed opposition to build and a whole pack of new contenders to emerge, including Sir Keith Joseph, shadow Home Secretary; Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the shadow cabinet's spokeswoman on housing and environment; and Edward du Cann, a former party chairman. With the prospect of an internal power struggle erupting, Heath changed his mind and decided to remain the Tory leader-at least...
...most historians have yet to accord film the validity they have granted to literature. Maybe these historians can't get over their initial orientation towards film as an entertainment medium. Twenty years ago, Sir Arthur Elton, one of the first to write about the value of film as source material, suggested another possible reason for the historians' reluctance to study film. "The principle thing frustrating the proper application of film to history," he wrote, "is lack of awareness of the possibilities; and the lingering feeling, a hangover from the Nathan flare days, that it is undignified for scholars to take...
...Rhodesia's exports pass through the Mozambique ports of Beira and Lourenso Marques. Closure of these vital outlets would mean swift economic strangulation for Rhodesia. A much longer rail route exists through Botswana to South Africa's ports. Last month, however, Botswana's President Sir Seretse Khama announced that he Intended to take over the rail line, and he might well close it to Rhodesian traffic. Thanks to a crash construction program, a direct rail link to South Africa was recently opened, but this new single-track line cannot possibly handle all the nation's exports...