Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowe purchased an inexpensive replica of the statue, demonstrated to his colleagues that it would be a simple matter to break the lock on a door leading from the statue's head (where a million tourists annually stare out at the harbor through windows in the crown) into the 42-ft.-long torch-bearing arm, from which the public is excluded. At the statue's shoulder, Bowe reported, the Black Liberation boys could plant a few sticks of dynamite, detonate them with electrical blasting caps, and-bang!-in one blast the "damned old bitch" would be rendered both...
Dartmouth will have plenty of incentive tonight--it needs to win all the rest of its league games to stay in the running for the Ivy crown. If the Green can beat Harvard and Cornell, while Brown, now 7-1, loses either to Cornell or Princeton, the two schools will tie for the title that the Indians won by half a game over the Bruins last year...
...third to his widow Clementine and the rest to his four children. The will did not represent the bulk of Churchill's wealth, derived from book royalties estimated at $3,000,000; that was in a trust, set up in 1946 for his children and grandchildren, and under Crown law exempt from death duties...
Hong Kong's British garrison was put on the alert last week, and police leaves were canceled. Governor Sir David Trench appealed for calm over radio and TV. The stock market dipped. The crown colony was having something of a crisis, but it had nothing to do with the escalating warfare in South Viet Nam. It was caused instead by a run on a handful of Hong Kong's Chinese-owned banks...
Boston College won the Beanpot crown for the eighth time and the third straight year by edging Boston University 5-4. The feature game was as exciting and well-played as a championship play-off between the best two teams in the East should...