Word: birkett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Heritage." Without changing clothes, he sped off from the welcoming ceremonies in Victoria Station to address a luncheon meeting of the upper-crust Pilgrims Society at the Savoy, got a nice introduction from the Pilgrims' Toastmaster Lord Birkett as "a product of that great American tradition that the village boy can rise to high office, [and] has invested the office of Vice President with higher importance and greater prestige than it has ever enjoyed." Nixon in turn made his tribute to Britain: "Every time an American citizen acts politically within the democratic context, we reflect our English heritage...
...Britain's Swimmers Victor Birkett, 26, and Kathleen Mayoh, 20, and Egypt's Bakir Soliman, 26, in that order, over the stormy English Channel, east to west from France, to become the season's first successful crossers...