Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News Item: Beanpot Basketball Tournament cancelled. The Basketball counterpart of college hockey's Beanpot tourney has died a quiet death. Harvard nabbed the tourney crown last season after beating B.C., but the four-team event was never a crowd pleaser or a winning proposition financially...
...feast. The menu included gyngere (gingered carp) and blancmange (spiced chicken in almond cream), all to be eaten only with fingers; potables were mead and hippocras (spiced wine). As the banquet's lord of the manor, the host was outfitted in ermine-trimmed cape and ducal crown. The price tag for the gothic gaieties...
...country after independence. Blacks are entitled to the assurance that the progress to majority rule will be irreversible." One possible formula, endorsed by Washington, would vest general responsibility for the transition in a British "commissioner" and would require all Rhodesian political groups to swear loyalty to the Crown. Richard and his plan received a chilly reception in Rhodesia. When his party landed in Salisbury, it was ignored by Rhodesian Foreign Affairs Minister Pieter K. van der Byl, who also happened to be at the airport. In the capital, the attitude of whites toward the visitors was equally hostile. After police...
Horns, gongs and drums sounded through the Royal Plaza of Bangkok last week to herald a royal wedding. Just before the astrologically auspicious moment for their marriage ceremony-8:39 a.m.-Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, and his first cousin, Somsawali Kittiyakorn, 19, rolled up to the palace in a procession led by two yellow Rolls-Royces. Following Thai tradition, the ceremony included prayers to Buddha and the pouring of lustral water on the heads of the young cousins by the groom's grandmother. After the rites were concluded, the bride's father added a Western touch...
Safer bets are MacArthur and A BridgeToo Far. MacArthur will attempt to repeat the success of Patton by island-hopping across the Pacific with the imperious five-star general. Gregory Peck, who plays the lead, studied old newsreels to catch MacArthur's flamboyance and even shaved the crown of his head to match the general's little bald spot...