Word: beauforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking down." On Nov. 12, 1889, a warrant was issued for Lord Arthur's arrest, but by then he had left the country. Some experts say that he ended offering his services to the Sultan in Constantinople, where the laws were more lenient, but the present Duke of Beaufort's family has denied researchers access to the family records on their notorious forebear. As for No. 19 Cleveland Street, it was torn down in the 1920s to make way for an eminently respectable institution, which by sheer geographical happenstance is called the Middlesex Hospital...
...dismissal, there is no explanation for the growth of their militancy. At times we see creators tug to pull their fable together: a midwife portentously tells Conroy, to "treat the kids right, and they'll do right by you," and he explains his work to the people of Beaufort, South Carolina (unbelievably) via sound...
...booksellers and art dealers in London. Lloyd astutely realized that, with postwar taxation and the wartime ruin of landed estates, the great English collectors of the prewar years would now become sellers. He gained access to them and their collections through David Somerset, heir presumptive to the Duke of Beaufort. Over the past two decades, Somerset-who hobnobs with such figures as David Rockefeller and Aristotle Onassis-has been invaluable to Lloyd, steering collections and clients toward him and, best of all, introducing him to the Italian auto magnate Giovanni Agnelli, an impassioned collector. The chain of contacts now reaches...
...million acres of "icebergia," good only for a few "wretched fish"-even at $7.2 million, or 2? an acre? The answer is now plain: everyone. Most Alaskans see the state as a treasure house of minerals, including the huge North Slope oil reserves on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Ardent conservationists yearn to protect as much as possible of America's last great wilderness. But standing in the way of fulfilling anyone's wishes was a knotty legal hitch...
...terrible accident. I wish him peace of mind. Americans are for the most part compassionate people and bear no ill feeling toward the youngest Kennedy brother. I know I don't. I just don't want another Kennedy in the White House. MARGARET MCCARTHY MCEACHERN Beaufort...