Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep track of the action this Saturday. For once, it isn't due to the networks' penchant for counterprogramming. Both events are being held simultaneously: the heavyweight championship bout, live from London via Early Bird satellite (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.);* the 91st running of the Triple Crown classic, live from Pimlico...
...traitors to the British Crown, the three Rhodesians who arrived in London last week technically faced the penalty of death by hanging. Instead, they were met at London Airport by plainclothesmen and whisked away to an obscure hotel. The three men were representatives of Ian Smith's rebellious white-minority government, and they came on a special safe-conduct dispensation to commence what the British press called "talks about talks," which Prime Minister Harold Wilson hoped might lead to Rhodesia's ending its six-month rebellion and rejoining the Commonwealth...
What can Harvard possibly do to defeat Princeton lacrosse team today? Princeton won the Ivy crown last year looked like the strongest team in the East at the beginning of the season. But guess again...
...fanfares. The Queen, acrackle in white silk organza and wrapped in white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room. Then, having donned the 18-ft. red velvet train, originally tailored for Queen Victoria and a 3-lb. jeweled crown, she mounted the throne in the jammed Lords' Chamber. "My Lords," murmured the Queen, "pray be seated...
...same Crown Point, Ind., farm that was sold for $325 an acre a year ago recently acquired a new buyer at $500 an acre. In Texas' Montgomery County, 25 miles north of Houston and not far from an oilfield complex, pasture that went for $350 an acre in 1965 changed hands this year at $1,000 an acre...