Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team nabbed the MIT crown easily last fall and should encounter only minimal resistance from its five tourney opponents in the MIT DuPont Center waters...
...teams will play a make-up doubleheader today in Chicago--with the Mets needing only one victory to clinch the crown...
...Junior Banner he is a dutiful son who finally wins enough money to send his pa to his dreamland, Australia. In The Emperor of the North Pole Lee Marvin is trailed by a brash youth who wants to replace him as king of the hobos. But the crown stays squarely put on the gray head. At the end of the film Marvin boots the youth off the rails, shouting: "Kid, you got no class, you'll never make...
...Akenzua II, 74. Like the Oni of Ife and the Alafin, he receives a stipend of about $10,000 a year from the Nigerian government; in addition, he has extensive landholdings that produce considerable extra income-just how much, no one will say. His successor is Crown Prince Solomon Akenzua, 48, who retired from the Nigerian civil service in June to return to Benin and begin preparing himself for the responsibilities of royalty. Prince Solomon hopes that the Lagos government has abandoned for good its past habit of deposing obas almost at will. "If an oba does...
...crusty Olive Ann Beech, 69-year-old head of Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp., is queen of the private-plane industry, her nephew Frank Hedrick is crown prince; since 1968 he has been Beech president. The division of labor has worked well, piloting Beech from a $7.7 million loss in fiscal 1970 to a $7,000,000 profit the next year. Now the family management team has begun merger negotiations with troubled Grumman Aircraft, which lost $70 million in 1972 mostly because of cost overruns on the Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. Grumman officials contend that...