Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2. In 1972 two of the vessel's kitchen porters were charged with possession of rifles and hand grenades on board, following one of the ship's stopovers in New York. An I.R.A. bomb factory was discovered last December in Southampton, the liner's home port, which has long been a center of I.R.A. activity in Britain. Last week, following a police raid that netted the biggest haul of explosives since the terrorist campaign began in Britain, Scotland Yard authorities believed they were closer than ever to establishing the QE2 connection...
...casually outrageous frameworks a pith which all the essential trimmings can be hung--lots of love interest, sophisticated hero and heroine, comic minor roles with plenty of room for hamming it up. Our hero the dashing and debonair if lightly befuddled Jimmy Winter (John Witham), returns to his palatial Southampton estate with his new bride, an insufferably prim young woman named Constance (Innes-Fergus McDade). Unbeknownst to him, however, his mansion has been appropriated by a gang of enterprising bootleggers who have managed to charm their way into the good graces of "The Girls," a sort of Platonic harem that...
...SOUTHAMPTON COLLEGE...
Died. Kay Summersby Morgan, 66, General Dwight Eisenhower's secretary, chauffeur and confidante during World War II; of cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. Irish-born daughter of a retired British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby...
...life, Thompson has done the only thing open to a scholar with such penchants but no mystical or magical experience. In 1973 he founded his own learning center in Southampton, N.Y. It is called "Lindisfarne" after an ancient monastery school in Scotland that helped keep learning alive through the Dark Ages. There Thompson and his followers are quietly preparing for cultural transformation, whatever form it might take, whenever it comes. If it comes...