Word: crowningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When that headline ran in a Rio de Janeiro newspaper in 1966, it seemed to a lot of soccer fans that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, alias Pelé, alias the King, was indeed dead-or at least he had lost his crown. The exciting, agile, acrobatic youth who almost single-handed won Brazil the World Cup in 1958 and led his Santos team to two world professional-club championships was now 27, married, rich, overweight -naturally-and the goat of Brazil's loss to Hungary in the 1966 World Cup playoffs. The spotlight moved from...
...Establishment is a clique of some two hundred industrialists, politicians and ranking generals, whose close ties to the Crown have won them important business contracts, political influence and key commands. Greece's new rulers are country boys, who come from lower middle class or peasant families. "Papadopoulos was the richest of us all," says an officer loyal to the junta, "because his father was a schoolteacher." Papadopoulos & Co. are suspicious of intrigues in the big city, jealous of the rich and resentful of the favors that the Palace passed out to highly placed officers. In the past, any incursion...
...revealed to "Our Own Correspondent" by his 24-year-old son (in London), his third wife (in Tunisia), and former colleagues (sometimes identified only as "X") on practically every continent except Antarctica. Last week Philby went on display in Moscow, almost in the manner of the czar's crown jewels...
...small Establishment of shipowners and industrialists-is a source of resentment to the average Greek. Most resented is Queen Mother Frederika, who is regarded by most Greeks as an incurable meddler in the country's politics. Since the April coup, Greeks had rallied to Constantine mainly because the crown was the one legal institution that the junta had not destroyed; Greek politicians looked to Constantine to steer the counry back to representative government. But he did not command the love or devotion that makes men willing to die for a king...
...John Newcombe, the world's No. 1 -ranked male player and the defending Wimbledon champion, says that he will defend his title even if he has to turn pro to do so. California's Billie Jean King, who won this year's ladies' crown at Wim bledon, will be back, too: "I favor open tennis," she says realistically and practi cally, "and I would be happy to play it." Arthur Ashe, the No. 2-ranked...