Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...princess, Queen Elizabeth's sister Margaret has never had much luck with fairy-tale romances. Duty-bound to give up her true love, Group Captain Peter Townsend, she settled for Antony Armstrong-Jones, and is now legally separated. According to Margaret's friends, quoted in the British weekly Woman's Own, the match with Jones came about because Margaret received a letter from Townsend announcing his plans to marry another. "That evening, I became engaged to Tony. It was no coincidence," Margaret told her friends. She has also revealed her doubts about remarrying: "It would probably...
...Armstrong's semiabstract paintings of Ireland's wild west coast sell for about $800 in Dublin and as much as three times that abroad...
...Arthur Armstrong In 1969 Irish Artist Armstrong ended a losing seven-year struggle with the Dublin tax authorities; it seems that he kept artistically inaccurate records of his brush-and-easel expenses. Now spared the drudgery of bookkeeping, Bachelor Armstrong, 53, ambles through an unhurried life of painting ("There is a limit to the amount you can produce to satisfy yourself) and making the rounds in Dublin. "You can get to know everybody here," says he. "In London, there's too much territory to cover...
Freddie Laker is no Rickenbacker, Lindbergh, Mitchell, Doolittle or Armstrong. But the feisty Englishman has made aviation history in his own way, by forcing transatlantic fares lower than major airlines had said they could ever go. In June, Laker won approval from the Carter Administration to offer round-trip flights between New York City and London on his 13-jet Laker Airways for $236-almost $100 less than the cheapest non-charter fare-starting Sept. 26. Last week six major airlines countered with a cut-rate transatlantic fare of their own, tossing in some of the amenities that Laker...
...Glazunov calls his masterwork. In Western eyes, the huge (10-ft. by 20-ft.) canvas seems to be little more than a pastiche, cast in gloomy black, blue and red tones. Mystery is made up of many of the century's famous figures-including Czar Nicholas II, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Franklin Roosevelt, Mao and Stalin, who is apparently dead, floating in a sea of blood. Says Glazunov: "It is a work of philosophical realism that reflects the ideas of humanity...