Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January to set up an Atlantic economic committee, including the U.S. and Canada. Subject: what to do about the impending division of Western Europe into two rival economic blocs. This was the topic that alarmed Macmillan. The British talk of building a bridge to draw together their Outer Seven and the bigger Common Market Six. U.S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon returned from a European tour last month convinced that the U.S. would have to involve itself as a direct participant in consultation between the two developing trading groups, if only to protect its own trade interests...
...concern enough. The latest statistics show that society mothers launching their daughters would do far far better to snare for a son-in-law an ordinary bloke with a kind heart than the wearer of a coronet. While only one in 15 marriages between commoners breaks up in Britain, seven of 25 of Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings started by his Duchess No. 2. In Edinburgh...