Word: crown
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...boldness, softness, sweetness and sureness of touch." The son of a Smithfield clothworker, Inigo Jones was trained as a painter, studied in Italy, and was largely responsible for putting England back into the mainstream of Renaissance cul ture, from which it had been isolated by the Reformation. Appointed the Crown's surveyor-general in 1615, Jones turned into an architect of note, designing the portico to St. Paul's Cathedral and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall with the serene neoclassicism of Italy's Palladio, thus banishing forever burly Tudor beams and gables...
Garlic & Gold Coins. At the Shah's request, the Iranian Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that will eventually amend Iran's 50-year-old constitution and enable the Shah to appoint a regent-designate to rule if he should die before his son, Crown Prince Reza, now six, becomes 20 years old. His choice for the regency: his wife, Empress Farah, 28, who has presented him with two male heirs (plus a girl) after two previous wives failed to give him a son. The Shah, who has held Iran's Peacock Throne for 26 years without...
Last week, as the land of the ancient Persians celebrated the Now Ruz, or New Year-it is the year 1346 by Iranian reckoning-few of the Shah's people would dispute his right to the crown. More prosperous than ever, millions of Iranians went traveling for the holiday, flocking to Caspian Sea beaches and gathering in homes for the traditional meal, which includes apples, sumac (a bread baked on hot stones), garlic and wheat halva. At a palace reception, the Shah rewarded his ministers with handfuls of newly minted gold coins. In a family tableau showing the continuity...
With most of the winter season completed, Holworthy continues to lead the race for the freshman intramural crown. The Yard's perennial "jock" dorm increased its slim fall lead to a margin of more than fifty points over second place Matthews South...
...titles. In sabre, Paul Apostol took all five of his final round bouts. Apostol beat Penn's Todd Makler after losing to him in the team sabre competition. Another junior, George Masin, beat Navy's Frank Hewitt and Penn's Ron McMahan in two fence-offs for the epee crown. The foil titlist--Mike Gaylor--is also a junior. N.Y.U. should be invincible next year...