Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style," surely that is a rubric often used but ill-remembered. Mr. Denning, however, has followed it to the letter, for he has assembled an intriguing group of principal persons. "The story must start with Stephen Ward, aged fifty," he writes. A minister's son, a professional osteopath, and an occasional artist, Ward had a "quick and easy manner of conversation which attracted some but repelled others.... He was at the same time utterly immoral...and he admired the soviet regime and sympathised with Communists...
...Ward's ally, Denning presents the wily foreigner, Eugene Ivanov, assistant naval attache at the Russian Embassy in London. "He had qualities not normally found in a Russian officer in this country. His English was good and he was keen to meet people. He drank a good deal, however, ad was something of a ladies' man." Enter Christine Keeler who was "employed at the Murray Cabaret Club as a show girl which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes on....She had undoubted physical attractions...
...Saturday, after nightfall, Stephen Ward and some of the girls were bathing in the swimming pool when one of them, Christine Keeler, whilst she was in the water, took off her bathing costume, throw it on the bank, and bathed naked.....Soon afterwards (the rest of the party) came to watch the bathing...Christine rushed to get her swimming costume. Stephen Ward threw it to one side so Christine could not get it and Christine seized a towel to hide herself. Lord Astor and Mr. Profume arrived at this moment and it was all treated as a place...
...Newman claimed that the city's seventh and eighth districts had formed "a sociological whole" and should not have been divided. She said a fairer solution to the reapportionment problem would have been to move ward five into the first district...
...reduce the number of representatives from that district, the seventh ward--which includes Radcliffe and lies north of the Square--was transferred to the heavily Democratic third district. Since both Mrs. Newman and Campbell live in the seventh ward, they must run against two Democratic incumbents if they wish to win either or both of the district's two seats...