Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not trust his kingdom's fate entirely to heavenly hands. This week he was off to Washington to see Lyndon Johnson, in the hope that the coming year will bring an ample number of gifts stamped "Made in U.S.A." Accompanied by his petite wife, Queen Ratna, and Crown Prince Birenda, a Harvard student, the King will try to persuade the President of the need and importance of aiding Nepal, to which the U.S. has contributed $98 million since World...
Linkletter, who is touring the country as part of the Royal Crown Cola University Series, was the guest of the Marketing Club...
...Paris branch of Van Cleef & Arpels. Feeling like a man loose "amongst the treasures of The Thousand and One Nights," Arpels chose 1,469 diamonds, 36 rubies, 36 emeralds and 105 pearls from the royal jewels in Iran's Central Bank, spent six months fashioning them into a crown that is literally priceless-though one sporty Iranian banker has put an unofficial figure of $15 million on the Empress' lovely headpiece...
...Triple Crown Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, with nine hits and three homers in the first six games, managed only a single in four trips to the plate. Righthander Jim Lonborg, trying for a third Series victory on two days rest, came out wild and weary. Manager Dick Williams kept praying until the sixth inning, then mercifully took him out. By then, St. Louis had a six-run lead and the game was long gone...
...series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That the Red Sox made it at all was due largely to the heroics of their two stars: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski, 28, winner of batting's triple crown (.326 average, 44 home runs, 121 RBIs), who got seven hits in his final eight times at bat, and Fireballing Righthander Jim Lonborg, 25, who locked up the pennant and his 22nd victory (v. nine losses) by cutting down the Minnesota Twins in the very last game of the season...