Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just back from their second honeymoon in Africa, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton decided to look in on a couple of the kids. Their destination: the twelve-acre farm in Wales belonging to Michael Wilding Jr., 23, Liz's son from her second marriage. Michael and his girl friend whipped up a vegetarian banquet for the prodigal pair, complete with a local soup in honor of Welshman Burton. Mother Liz pronounced the meal "one of the best," which was also her judgment of a rock group, Solar Ben, in which the versatile Michael plays trumpet, flute and guitar...
...while it looked like old times at the jewelry store for Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Fresh from their honeymoon in Botswana, the pair stopped off in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Dick picked out a 72-diamond wedding band for his beloved, as well as a platinum and multi-diamond dress ring worth close to $1 million. Liz, however, announced that she was "deeply moved by Richard's gesture of giving me the ring" but just couldn't accept such an "extravagant thought." Instead, she said, she and Burton had agreed to use the money to build...
...files from Madrid went to Associate Editor Burton Pines, a seven-year veteran of TIME'S news bureaus, who wrote the story in New York. Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina spent most of her week poring over histories, TIME files and clippings going back to pre-Civil War days. Meanwhile, Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber prepared a profile of Heir Apparent Juan Carlos...
Goshorn, a computer engineer, and a fellow entrepreneur, Burton A. Yale 44, founded the company in 1967 on $70,000. Sales leaped from $600,000 in 1968 to $61.4 million in the fiscal year ended July 31, 1974, and company officials were predicting $200 million by 1978. But in 1972 Yale left because of a heart attack and family problems, and in early 1974 Goshorn resigned as president (though he remained chairman) because overwork was ruining his 21-year-old marriage...
...Roger C. Burton Houston...