Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opening a new budget-store branch, Detroit's J. L. Hudson rang up $40,000 in the first three hours. Sales at Rich's in Atlanta, the South's biggest store, are running 8% ahead of last year's. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, the two biggest mail-order houses (Sears is also the world's biggest retailer), both set sales records in July. "All this is most heartening," beams an executive of one of Boston's largest department stores. "Usually we hope to just remain constant through the first part of the year...
...what he considered a stab in the back from within the Establishment. "The Profumo case," said Macmillan fatuously last week, "revealed the very high standard we try to maintain in British public life," because otherwise the affair would not have "caused so great a shock." The judge in the Ward case himself echoed the widespread view that Ward was an exception, and that "the even tenor of the British family goes on quietly." And the Bishop of Exeter maintained that the "Profumo scandal does not prove that the private morals of public men are worse in this generation than they...
...public and unabashed. King Charles II acknowledged 14 bastards, openly went to church with them, even gave them titles (the present Duke of Richmond springs from the Stuart bar sinister). But there was just as much vigor among the Puritan opposition, which lustily preached fire and brimstone. In Ward's Britain, vice tends to be half-hidden by respectability-and only half-condemned. There is a relative lack of moral indignation in many quarters, including Profumo's own constituency (see following story). The Labor Opposition, though it has muttered about the corrupt aristocracy and the twilight...
...been self-satisfaction and complacency. These have been badly shaken. Britons have been forced to begin a long and painful examination of conscience. "Let us be frank," says Novelist Rebecca West. "The problem is, as it always has been, to get the goats and monkeys under control. The Ward case is a problem in animal training, and we ourselves are the animals...
Bedregal has no intention of weakening. He is bent upon renovation of the tin mines as an essential step to ward restoring national solvency and self-respect. "We are facing a point of definition in this country," he says. "This is absolutely the most important development since the revolution...