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...loss. A monthly magazine called Touchdown counts 160,000 readers, and one Briton in every ten saw the Bears in this year's Super Bowl. It's not cricket, of course, but football seems certain to gain even more ground this August, when the Bears arrive at London's Wembley Stadium for an exhibition against the Dallas Cowboys. Forget about getting in; all 80,000 seats are sold...
Everybody was trying to figure out what to make of the roughly 1.5 million Americans who poured into England between July 1943 and Dday, introducing many Britons to such exotica as jitterbugging, Jeeps and even pitchers' mounds. When a mound was installed in Wembley Stadium for a baseball game between two U.S. service teams in early June 1944, the London Times informed puzzled readers that "its use adds to the speed of throw." Despite their far-reaching empire, many Britons, particularly in the smaller towns, had never seen a black man until the G.I.s arrived...
...Wembley, Australia
...Jesus. . . He will make such use of your lives as will be beyond your greatest expectations . . . Do not let the sight of the world in turmoil shake your confidence in Jesus. Not even the threat of nuclear war." Like the speech containing similar moral lessons the previous Saturday at Wembley Stadium, which was interrupted 25 times with warm applause from a youthful audience, his strict admonitions against self-indulgence and "sexual irresponsibility" were received with surprising equanimity...
...were adopted. The official party platform called for Britain's withdrawal from the European Community and extensive new nationalization of industry and finance. In addition, leading leftists angered moderates by advocating unilateral removal of nuclear defense weapons from Britain. The climactic blow came at a special conference in Wembley last month, at which Labor M.P.s voted for a rules change that will give the bloc-voting unions and the left-leaning local committees a stranglehold over selection of the party leader. At that, Williams and three other former Cabinet ministers established a breakaway "Council for Social Democracy," the first...