Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purse of $129,000, raising Kauai King's earnings to $375,147, a fair return on Owner Mike Ford's original $42,000 investment. It also made Kauai King the early-line favorite to win next month's Belmont Stakes and become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. "Racing needs a Triple Crown winner," said Jockey Brumfield. "I definitely know...
Wearing the crown seems perfectly appropriate for Vanessa; she is a member of the royal family of the English theater. Her father is Sir Michael Redgrave; Lady Redgrave is Actress Rachel Kempson. Her sister and brother are players, as was her grandfather and his father before him. On the night she was born, her career was chosen by Laurence Olivier, who was playing Hamlet to her father's Laertes. Prophesied Olivier in a curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a lovely new actress has been born. Laertes has a daughter...
...Point on Washington's Fidalgo Island, where three generations of the March family let their sheep out to graze on bucolic farm land, there are now Shell and Texaco refineries and there will soon be a $15 million Lone Star Cement plant. Near by, at sleepy Port Townsend, Crown Zellerbach has built a pulp mill...
Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England...
Peace & Reason. Author Butler measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there and the man who survived to wear the crown. Har old, he says, had little chance to lay his hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive...