Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small-scale farmers with little capital, price supports provide only meager help. The less a farmer produces, the less he gets from price supports. "Most of the help," says Higbee, "goes to a relatively small percentage of upper-bracket operators who are better off than the majority of taxpayers...
...What stands out in the arr represented in the Mellon Collection is the quality that Historian G. M. Trevelyan called "the fullness of life . . . Perhaps no set of men and women since the world began enjoyed so many different sides of life, with so much zest, as the English upper classes at this period." Painters like Arthur Devis -one of the comparative unknowns brought to prominence by the Mellon Collection-caught them thus, just as the landscapists "depicted England at its best, at the perfect moment before the outrages on her beauty began...
Excursioning to the Outer Hebrides with classmates from Scotland's stiff-upper-lip Gordonstoun School, bonnie Prince Charles, 14, stepped up to the bar of the Crown Hotel, Stornoway, manfully plunked down two and sixpence for a cherry brandy. It was grand fun until his royal bodyguard collared him, shooed him off to join the boys for dinner and a movie (It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield). But since Scottish law sets 18 as the legal drinking age, that spot of brandy soon splashed into headlines, and Buckingham Palace-perhaps mindful that Britannia has waived the rules...
...dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three-month trip: Champion Parachutist Jacques Istel...
...schools all over Gabon, and that the little country has 14 medical students training in France, Dr. Schweitzer merely chuckles and says of the blacks: "You cannot change their mentality." Among his six doctors and 17 nurses, there is not one African, nor is he training any. Says an upper-class African in Lambaréné: "I'd rather die unattended than be humiliated at Dr. Schweitzer's hospital...