Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Change is a delight in the middle years. Columnist Art Buchwald, 40, pulled up stakes in Paris as the celebrity's celebrity, relocated himself in Washington, D.C., and mined it for satire. Astronaut John Glenn, 45, is a vice president of Royal Crown Cola. Sometimes the change is an allout risk. Maxwell Wihnyk, 54, was running a mildly profitable newspaper in Beaumont, Calif., five years ago, but there was no joy in it. With a wife and three dependent children, he decided to go to law school. Says he: "You can scare the hell out of yourself living...
When chiming pendulums do chorus four He judged heir to the bay leaf crown Shall proffer his selfsame poeay, Orate in yellow lit Lamontian Forum...
...recovery mission is a formidable task force, often dedicated to finding and retrieving just one man. High overhead circles the "Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival...
...Britain's common law, the principle of privacy derives from the concept of private property, that "a man's house is his castle." This right was eloquently put by William Pitt: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake-the wind may blow through it-the storms may enter-the rain may enter-but the King of England cannot enter...
...Morgan J. Cramer, 59, moved from P. Lorillard Co., where, until six weeks ago, he was chairman, of the international division, to Royal Crown Cola, where he becomes president of its international subsidiary. Cramer's switch from puffs to pop was described as amicable. In his 35-year career with Lorillard, Cramer concentrated on the company's exports, retained his interest in overseas business after he became president in 1961 and chief executive a year later. Lorillard's greatest sales (95%) and biggest headaches, though, are in the domestic field, where its onetime fast-selling Kents have...