Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Harold Lionel Zellerbach, 83, former executive vice president and grandson of the founder of Crown Zellerbach, one of the world's largest producers of paper products; while vacationing aboard a cruise ship; in Honolulu. President for 28 years of the San Francisco Art Commission, Zellerbach helped establish the city as one of the country's cultural centers. He was also active in international af fairs and in 1957 was named head of the Commission on European Refugees, which tried to find homes for post-World War II displaced persons...
Roll out the red carpet and polish up the crown. In the midst of Saturday's squash holocaust at Hemenway Gym, the Crimson's Mike Desaulniers clearly established himself as the king of college squash by turning his showdown match with vaunted Tiger sophomore Tom Page into a one-sided farce, in one of the great athletic performances of Harvard history...
...think we can get points down the line," Stowell said. If Harvard does indeed neutralize Northeastern's running depth, that "line" will be too close to call, and the Crimson will have an excellent shot at the Greater Boston crown...
...Isle of Man, a British crown possession in the Irish Sea, differs from the mother country in several respects. Taxes are lower, cats have no tails, and youths judged guilty of violent crimes are occasionally whipped with a birch...
Showing off the imperial state crown, the Queen bears an uncanny resemblance to Mrs. Earbore, Lily Tomlin's Tasteful Lady from Grosse Pointe. Describing George Ill's microscope, Prince Charles sounds disturbingly like his favorite King, old George himself. "It has all sorts of interesting little drawers in it, one of which has the original slides," he says, managing to be both cute and condescending at the same time. "I'm told that the things that are inside are 18th century fleas." Then, picking up a slide, he adds, "There's one very big one here...