Word: crowning
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Working Off Steam. Today, the brightest jewel in Spain's African crown is Spanish Guinea, which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms...
...seven years the royal palace in Oslo had been without a woman-ever since King Olav V's youngest daughter, Astrid, married a commoner. But now the King and Crown Prince Harold, 31, will no longer live in lonely masculine splendor. The King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince...
...Rossi's artistry reached near-perfection against Boston College in a pressure game for the Greater Boston League crown. He rose to the occasion and hurled a masterful one-hitter against the highly-touted BC sluggers. Only a soft single in the fourth inning prevented Del Rossi from pitching Harvard's first no-hitter since...
...times for 173 yards. Gatto gained 102 in 19 tries. And the defense was superb. By winning this game Harvard seemed to have wrapped up the Ivy title. Yet later in the season Princeton upset Harvard, and we had to settle for a three-way tie for the Ivy crown...
...several years now Howard students have asked Administration officials for a larger role in deciding curriculum and regulations on their campus. In an incident two years ago President James Nabrit refused to crown a student-elected homecoming queen because she wore an African hair style. Last year a two-year ROTC requirement was abolished--but only grudgingly, after students held massive demonstrations including a boycott of classes...