Word: crown
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...TRIPLE CROWN-THE PREAKNESS (CBS, 5:30-6 p.m.). The 88th running of the Preakness, from Baltimore...
Reign in Spain. Carlism began in 1833, when King Ferdinand VII, dying without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some...
...that the Queen could have prevented a lot of the trouble if she had been tough a little earlier in the day. Juliana was brought up under the domineering thumb of her mother, the great Wilhelmina, and was determined that her own daughters should have a happier childhood. Crown Princess Beatrix received a good education with a stress on her coming constitutional role, but the three other girls were scarcely trained as princesses and had wide freedom. A friend of the royal family recalls, "Sometimes weeks would go by when the Queen had no idea what Irene was doing...
...Crown & Root. A tooth is not a sim ple cutting or grinding tool, but a complex piece of living matter. The part that shows, which dentists call the crown, is made of bonelike dentine wrapped in an enamel shell. The part that is hidden, which dentists call the root, consists of bonelike materials surrounding the root canal, which is filled with soft tissue, blood vessels and the tooth's nerve...
...processes of graft rejection. Even their enamel, he said, may touch off an immune reaction. The root is slowly whittled away by scavenger cells in the bloodstream of the tooth's new owner, and is replaced with soft tissue or new bone, which is why the crown eventually falls...