Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crown Center suite, the President calmly checked off West Virginia ?the state that put him over the top ?on a tally sheet; then he accepted the handshakes of his aides in the room. "I guess we don't have to change the speech," Ford quipped to Media Consultant Don Penny...
Seeking Divorce. Jill Townsend, 31, American actress; from Nicol Williamson, 38, crown prince of the British stage, whom she met in 1965 when she played his daughter in Inadmissible Evidence on Broadway; after five years of marriage; one son; in London...
...before the proceedings opened so that he could direct the tense fight to hold his dutiful, if uninspired, delegate lines. With 59 White House staffers also on hand (35 would pay their own expenses), Ford was to take charge from a suite in Kansas City's spectacularly modern Crown Center...
...only discord involves possible demonstrations. The Kansas City Convention Coalition, a mixed bag of protesters ranging from homosexuals to Yippies and anarchists, requested a permit to camp out in Penn Valley Park, a large expanse just behind the Crown Center, where President Ford will be staying. The city refused. Last week the coalition announced that it expected at least 2,500 demonstrators and that despite the turndown they would camp in Penn Valley Park, bathe in the park's small lake and dig latrines with a rented backhoe. That threat was greeted with some truculence. "By God," countered Parks...
...decathlon competition at Munich four years ago, Russian Gold Medalist Nikolai Avilov was still catching his breath when a young man approached him, shook his hand and announced he would take Avilov's crown away from him at the next Olympics. "I took a good look," Avilov recalls. "Just think, a kid who had placed way down the list somewhere [tenth] threatening to beat...