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Paisley will soon be defusing the situation by his absence. He will visit the U.S. next month, presumably to counteract Bernadette. At week's end a two-man Protestant "truth squad" arrived in New York for the same purpose and got off to a flying start by describing Bernadette as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt." The truth squad was also expected to emphasize Bernadette's lackluster performance as one of Ulster's twelve representatives at Westminster; since her election last April, she has turned up for very few sessions. What is more, Kenneth Lewis, a Tory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Travels of Bernadette | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...formation of Blind Faith was less a conscious decision than a drifting together of old friends who liked to play together in off hours. After Cream and Traffic broke up, Clapton and Winwood began a series of two-man sessions, alternating between Clapton's $100,000 house in the Surrey hills south of London and Winwood's whitewashed, $5-a-week farm cottage on the Berkshire downs. Baker, who had known Clapton since they worked together in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, "just showed up" one day and started sitting in. With the addition of Grech, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Jam from Old Cream | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...give a damn," sighs W. T. Westbrook, sanitation director of Bowie County (Texas). He cares, but is clearly no Pied Piper. When he arrived on the fetid scene two years ago, he personally showed community leaders the filth, started keeping count of rat-bite victims and battled city hall for revisions in the sanitation code. All in vain. So he organized his own two-man rat patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cities: Rats' Alley | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...Ironically, we ran into just what we had intended to avoid by coming to England early," said two-man Dave Tyler. "We know that it takes time to become acclimated to the time change and the difference in food and water, and we had figured that by arriving here a week early, we could be in optimal shape by the opening round...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Lights Win First Race at Henley | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...sifting of candidates for the honorary degrees is in the hands of a two-man subcommittee of the Harvard Corporation. The subcommittee examines several hundred names a year, including many which have been shelved from past year...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: The Fellows Beef Up Their Party By Doling Out the Honoraries | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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