Word: crownings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gist of Ji's proposal is that under Article 31, introduced into the Chinese constitution 13 months ago, the British crown colony would become a "special administrative zone." As such, Hong Kong would remain a free port and retain its convertible dollar. The economic interests of Britain and other countries would, says Ji, be guaranteed by law. In addition, a locally selected administration would exercise independent judicial power and control its own system of passports and visas. All the new top officials would be Hong Kong residents of Chinese ancestry...
Appointed head coach of this year's Olympic team in 1982 (after directing squads in Brooklyn and The Bronx to five league championships and a state title and an Austin, Minn., team to a national crown), Vairo assembled his four-man coaching staffand, last June in Colorado Springs, held tryouts for Sarajevo. From an original list of 250 amateurs, the coaches chose 80 top skaters. Vairo was looking for players fast enough to cover the wider Olympic rinks and adaptable to what he calls "sophisticated pond hockey"-the patient game of weaving and passing that wins Olympic medals...
...force in the debate world. Noted Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe won the national title for the Crimson back in 1961 and coached another team to the number one spot in 1969, James Q. Wilson was a member of one of only two two-man teams to take the crown twice, though he did it in the early '50s for the University of Redlands, located near Los Angeles. Harvard is the only school in the nation that has qualified for the national tournament every year since...
...Ohio Supreme Court chambers. More than 700 water mains broke in Fort Worth, causing the system to hemorrhage water twice as fast as the city uses it. In New Orleans, upscale new Canal Place Mall was awash because of broken pipes, while city streets were flooded by rain. The Crown Plumbing Co. in Houston hired 150 workers, doubling its staff, to cope with 3,000 emergency calls a day during the four-day freeze...
...ENGLAND TRADITIONS die hard. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for instance, tourists continue to through to Faneuil Hall, the official Bay State beverage is still cranberry juice and in the political realm of the House of Representatives, Thomas W. McGee remains crown prince and dictator at the State House. The 59 year-old ex-Marine from Lynn is still among the most enduring of institutions on Beacon Hill, a man whose iron lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight...