Word: grosvenor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambassador's redecorating chores, however, promises a crisis. Calling the huge (35-ft. wingspread) gilded eagle that bestrides the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square an insult to the British,-Annenberg said that he would find a new roost for the bird. That may not be so easy. The eagle's creator, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, has threatened legal action if his work is removed. "The eagle," said Roszak, "is an integral part of the embassy." Besides, he added, the cost of tearing him loose from the building's steel beams would be enormous. Meanwhile, a well-turned verse...
...empire. An amorphous grouping of white and yellow, black and brown, it is well-nigh unequaled for sheer curiosity and panoply. There in London last week were the Daimler sedans, each with a Special Branch man riding shotgun in the front, whisking delegates from their suites in Claridges, Grosvenor House or the Dorchester to the Regency-style Marlborough House. There at the meeting itself was Harold Wilson, impatiently tapping his outsize Tanzanian meerschaum on the mahogany conference table when a speaker droned on. There, too, were Malawi's Hastings Banda, waving his fly whisk imperiously, and Canada...
Looting was reported as darkness fell over Grosvenor Square, which was left looking like a garbage dump under piles of torn pamphlets and banners...
...hard core of about 200 Mao-style Communists, along with anarchists and other extremists, defied the organizers and swarmed into Grosvenor Square looking for trouble...
...London School of Economics, which students have taken over as a sanctuary and medical aid center, about 40 injured demonstrators were brought in by student-driven ambulances from Grosvenor Square...