Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Sharlene Wells, 23, Miss America of 1985; and Robert Allen Hawkes, 25, a physical therapy student; in Salt Lake City. Wells, like her husband a Mormon attending Brigham Young University, attributed her beauty crown to the pageant's need for restored wholesomeness after disclosures that 1984 Winner Vanessa Williams had posed nude for photographs...
...rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked a Wimbledon official primly: "It was the first time anything like that has happened." Once...
...ceremony has changed little in the four centuries since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Last week her namesake traveled in an ornate carriage drawn by six gray horses to the Palace of Westminster in London. There, enthroned in the House of Lords and resplendent in a glittering crown containing a sapphire that belonged to Edward the Confessor and a ruby that Henry V wore at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, Queen Elizabeth II opened Parliament. The Lord Chancellor knelt and presented the Queen with her speech, a stilted discourse prepared by the Prime Minister, that outlined the government...
...Crown; 294 pages...
...Houston would separate Joe Morgan and Jimmy Wynn by sending Morgan to Cincinnati.) Baltimore's General Manager Harry Dalton had an idea that, since the city was predominantly black, perhaps a black superstar would stimulate black attendance. Robinson had a perfect year in 1966, winning the American League Triple Crown and prodding the Orioles to a World Series sweep of the Koufax-Drysdale Dodgers. He punctuated the final game, 1-0, with a home run. But Baltimore's blacks stayed away, seeming to care about baseball but unwilling to support...