Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Addis Ababa and arrested the commander of the Imperial Bodyguard. Most important, the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, which dictates policy to Prime Minister Michael Imru's five-week-old civilian government, announced that it was abolishing four offices through which Selassie had ruled the country since 1930: the Crown Council, which issued the Emperor's decrees; the Imperial Appointments Office, which implemented his selection of all important government officials; the Military Advisory Council, by which he ran the armed forces; and the Court of Justice, which interpreted the law according to his wish...
...Triple Crown winner Penny Chenery Tweedy has been out of the money all year. Wonder Horse Secretariat, whom she sold to a syndicate for $6,080,000, appeared at first to be a stud failure. Then her Meadow Stable's most likely comers, Capital Asset and Capito failed to win a stake. Now it turns out even Mrs. Tweedy's husband Jack finished up the track. "We were married for 25 years and things just ground to a halt," said Penny last week from Long Island about her impending divorce from Jack, an executive V.P. of the California...
...father, the company's founder, as Hallmark's president. A civic-minded Kansas City booster, Hall has set up an inner-city training center for the poor and inexperienced and has also taken charge of a project begun in 1967 by his father-Crown Center, a privately financed $200 million redevelopment that is transforming 23 dilapidated city blocks into a handsome apartment, hotel, office and shopping complex...
Sure, there was the IRA regatta in Syracuse, which called itself a national championship. But many of the heavier heavies--Harvard included--were consistent no-shows, suffering under the burden of final exams and leaving the laurels to such lesser powers as Wisconsin, who took the crown this spring...
...Washington the Crimson was after, and it showed. Harvard swept three of four events the next week in Seattle to take the first national crown, breaking two course records in the process...