Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Piper and Cornelius belong to a flock of Britons fascinated by the dream of man-powered flight and undeterred by a fearsome failure rate that goes back to Icarus. At Selsey Bill, Sussex, this month, twelve birdmen gathered to contend for a $2,400 prize offered by the local Royal Air Force Association to the first man to fly 50 yards under his own power. Some 6,000 turned up to watch contestants take off from a 25-ft.-high platform at the end of a lifeboat jetty. No one was injured, but the splashdowns rivaled...
Arctic Issue. Some disenchantment was inevitable. More and more Canadians are beginning to learn, however, that while Trudeau occasionally behaves like a 50-year-old playboy, more often he comes on as a sober, responsible leader. Canadians thought that the Prime Minister's official house at 24 Sussex Drive might become a rendezvous for jet-set types. It is busy, all right, but as a member of Trudeau's Liberal Party describes it: "Labor leaders on Thursday. Next week businessmen. Maybe a royal commission. Hardly swinging...
...fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London's fashionable Sussex Square. He relaunched the Sun as a tabloid in November and it now sells 1,325,000 copies...
...committed radicals. They are more concerned with having courses on the relevant questions, and finding their own answers. I think what they're asking for is relevance, and that we can find answers to some of the issues of our basic society." 7". B. Bottomore, 49, University of Sussex, England: "Today, critics of society are very active and verbal and this has given an impetus to the new sociologists. They have an audience. In the early fifties they had no one to write...