Word: monogram
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...time is somewhere in the next ten years; the police still wear Queen Elizabeth II's monogram on their caps and the politicians seem to be dressed by Blades and Mr. Fish. The settings have the glittery, spaced-out look of a Milanese design fair-all stamped Mylar and womb-form chairs, thick glass tables, brushed aluminum and chrome, sterile perspectives of unshuttered concrete and white molded plastic. The designed artifact is to Orange what technological gadgetry was to Kubrick's 2001: a character in the drama, a mute and unblinking witness...
EDMUND MUSKIE. As yet, no millionaire industrialists or oilmen have primed Muskie's campaign pump. There are in his camp a number of $10,000-and-under givers, among them Norman Cousins, who resigned last week as editor of the Saturday Review; Martin Stone, board chairman of Monogram Industries; and Sumner Redstone, president of Northeast Theater Corp. Muskie also received a boost last week with the addition of William T. King, a G.O.P. fundraiser, to his financial retinue. That was something of a coup. King, who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in California for Nixon, Ronald Reagan...
Last week the Tory government carried its quiet revolution-or counter-revolution-a long step further. In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber unlocked the customary faded red leather case embossed with Queen Victoria's monogram, "VR," and produced the new budget. It is an economic program designed to get Britain out of what Barber describes as "the ruts we have been following": an economic growth rate of only 2%, an inflation rate of 8% and rising unemployment that currently has 750,000 Britons out of work. In a two-hour speech that brought Tory...