Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social director of a Miami Beach hotel, and delay means nothing to her. To the audience, however, it means a chance to see Her Grace, swaddled in a frock that may well be a 19th century golf bag and surmounted by a flat green hat that looks like a Sussex divot, fight free of a tenacious seat belt, roll down the ramp and stagger to the airport bar, where the headwaiter respectfully bellows: "A LARGE BRANDY...
...actor who played his greatest role in 1944 just before D-day when he fooled the Germans into believing that he was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery on an inspection tour of North Africa and that the invasion was therefore still some time away; after a long illness; in Worthing, Sussex...
...Dollies piled with files shuttled back and forth, transferring Diefenbaker's papers from the three offices a Prime Minister commands in Ottawa to the single office accorded the Opposition leader. He also had to swap houses, and prepared to take his belongings from the 30-room mansion on Sussex Drive to Stornoway, the house maintained for the Opposition by a group of Canadian businessmen. Then there was the cut in pay-$37,000 a year for Mike Pearson now, $27,000 for Diefenbaker as Opposition leader...
...University of Sussex will get 21-year-old Eileen Janes, a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Brandeis University. Scholar Janes is getting her M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, wants to earn her doctorate in 19th century English history at Sussex, because it has the finest professor in her field. Pomona Senior David Drabkin, who has already spent a semester in India studying economic development, is also headed for Sussex to study international relations...
...flourishing inconveniences and inequities that make life not so good in Britain. Highways are so crowded that by 1980 there will be only 18 inches of main road for every car. (However the government announced last week that it has approved an 80-mile bridle path across the Sussex downs.) The tax system of Britain blatantly favors the gambler, speculator (whose capital gains are exempt) and expense-account swashbuckler...