Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sir," Rockefeller boomed. "No problem...
...seemed as if Wilson was off to a bad start. First of all, Lord Chalfont, a Labor peer who held sub-Cabinet posts in Wilson's first two administrations, resigned from the party to protest what he called the trade unions' "virtual dominance" of party policy. Then Sir Leonard Neale, former chairman of a Labor government Commission on Industrial Relations, disclosed that he might not vote for Wilson this time because the party "had been sold in bondage to the Trades Union Congress." At a televised press conference, Shirley Williams, Minister of Consumer Affairs in the outgoing government...
...Chile except try to "strengthen the democratic political parties"?although critics argue that fostering strikes and demonstrations amounted to a lot more than that. During another hearing, then CIA Director Richard Helms was asked if the CIA had passed money to Allende's political opponents. Helms' response: "No, sir." Former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs Charles A. Meyer, former Ambassador to Chile Edward Korry and other Administration officials gave similar testimony, though they may not have known about the operation...
...this crisis of official authority that has spawned the controversial vigilante movements that are now being organized throughout the country. Sir Walter Walker, 61, former commander of NATO's northern flank, claims to have already recruited 100,000 volunteers for his "civil assistance" movement, which plans to keep power plants going and sewage flowing if labor unions launch a crippling strike. Colonel David Stirling, 58, a onetime commando leader, is organizing a smaller group of professionals, called "GB '75," for the same purpose...
...fastest-selling rock albums in the U.S. nowadays is a three-LP set by a British group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It includes mod versions of Aaron Copland's Hoedown, a movement from Alberto Ginastera's First Piano Concerto and even Sir Charles Parry's great old Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham...