Word: wigan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first book Down and Out in Paris and London records in an oral-tactile way what it was like to be a dish washer, a tramp and a louse-ridden outsider. In The Road to Wigan Pier, he experienced the squalor of hopelessness while his pink pals were pitying the proletariat. At the end of his life, when he was dying of TB, he characteristically decided to treat it on a fog-swept island off Scotland's west coast. Evelyn Waugh visited him on his deathbed, and the reactionary Catholic gourmet saw a rare quality in the socialist agnostic...
...northern wind is harsh. The town's only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...
RICHARD L. WIGAN Frankston, Australia...
...astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden. ∙ ∙ ∙ The cornerstone for the new Wigan Girls High School was all inscribed: "Laid by the Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, A.D. 1962." But just a few hours before the Opposition Labor Party leader was to come up from London to do the honors, he learned that the school had become involved in a labor argument and that...