Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a year of bastard claims to the throne, North Carolina State finally attained legitimacy last night. Led by crown prince David Thompson's 21 points, the Wolfpack banished court jester Al McGuire and his Marquette Warriors, 76-64, to formally capture the NCAA basketball crown...
Today the Governor goes out of his way to court the rising black vote in Alabama. Last November, after stopping off to crown the black homecoming queen at the University of Alabama, Wallace received a standing ovation at the Southern Conference of Black Mayors in Tuskegee. Charles Evers, mayor of Fayette, Miss., has said that he might vote for Wallace for Vice President if he ran with Ted Kennedy...
...imperial crown and velvet robes were missing. So was the ride from Buckingham Palace to Westminster in the horse-drawn state coach. Instead, Queen Elizabeth, wearing the same sapphire-blue coat she wore at Princess Anne's recent wedding, drove to the House of Lords to open the new Parliament last week in an ordinary black limousine. The absence of spectacle was something of an accident; there simply had not been enough time to prepare the customary pageantry for the Queen, who had interrupted an official visit to Australia to anoint the election winner. Nonetheless, the austere mood reflected...
...speaker is not a madman, nor is he running a fun house or shifting the population of a prison across a body of water. He is Chris Mahan, executive stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera, unwinding after a rehearsal of Berlioz's Les Troyens, the crown jewel in a season beset by financial and artistic problems. First performed last fall [TIME, Nov. 5], it is back again this month. The eleven performances are the first ever in New York City, and the work has been staged only twice previously...
...Bruins, on the other hand, have had to struggle merely to win the Pacific Eight conference crown, winning on the last day of the season in a game over cross-town rival USC. In back-to-back games this year, they lost to Oregon and Oregon State, in addition to being upset by Notre Dame...