Word: crown
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...titles, and Constantine was not only by law the commander in chief of the army but in fact had their loyalty -more than he could expect from any of the other factions in the Greek body politic. Nonetheless Greek newspapers from left to right erupted in denunciatory horror ("The crown must be kept in its place"), and Premier George Papandreou rescinded the decree...
...Rock scorpions," as Gibraltar's 24,000 natives proudly call themselves, are not of Spanish ancestry but are descended from the Jewish, Maltese, Genoese and Moroccan immigrants whom the British encouraged to settle there. A tough, cocky breed, the citizens of Britain's only European crown colony speak breakneck English and a kind of cockney Spanish, follow British soccer as avidly as the bullfights, and pride themselves on their stiff upper lips, the view from their 1,400-ft.-high peak (Africa is only 20 miles across the straits), and the fact that the great-great-great-great...
...cost the treasury $303,000, including $183,300 spent on wedding gifts. However, an issue of 2,000,000 commemorative 30-drachma pieces will net a profit of $1,063,000, leaving the wily Greeks with $760,000 to play around with, or possibly use as a dowry for Crown Princess Irene...
Beauty contestants should be seen and not heard. But not the new Miss America, who is a ventriloquist and thus has two voices. The night she reached the finals, Vonda Kay Van Dyke, 21, of Phoenix, chirruped: "Barry Goldwater, here I come!" But once the crown was in place, she became a benign queen, and said: "I think the President is our greatest man." Then she was off for a series of nationwide appearances that will earn her $75,000, in addition to the $11,000 in scholarships she will use next fall at the State University. The other girls...
...second generation of Bonapartes tried without much success to marry well-seasoned European royalty. Achille Murat Bonaparte, son of Caroline, found that his title (Crown Prince of Naples) was getting him nowhere and decamped for Florida, where he became postmaster of Tallahassee and married a great-niece of George Washington's, thus complying with Napoleon I's edict to the American Bonapartes to marry only into the Washington and Jefferson families. Socially, the most successful of the second generation aside from Louis-Napoleon himself was Prince Napoleon Bonaparte ("Prince Plon-Plon...