Word: crowns
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Brown and Dartmouth look like the top pretenders to the Big Red-Crimson hold on the Ivies. After that Princeton and Penn are certainly improved, but are still a ways from the crown...
Talking to members of the Harvard hockey team is reminiscent of talking to the football players early in the fall. As you'll recall, the "experts" had all but counted the Crimson out of the running for an Ivy crown. A rebuilding year they called it, a term that didn't sit too well with the Harvard gridders. And we all know what the Crimson made of that prediction...
Whether that happens depends largely on the blond, handsome storybook princeling who at week's end became Spain's first King since his grandfather, Alfonso XIII, was deposed in 1931. The ceremony was brief but emotional; the traditional crown and scepter were present on a table in Madrid's packed Cortes, but Juan Carlos was not formally crowned. Dressed in the uniform of a captain-general of the Spanish army−a title held only by Franco and six other men in the country's history−Juan Carlos placed his hand on a Bible...
...retailers still face the urgent question: What will make consumers keep pouring into the nation's stores to part with their money? For some answers, store managers across the country increasingly are studying the phenomenal success of Federated Department Stores and especially its crown jewel, Bloomingdale's. Not every store, of course, can emulate Bloomingdale's specific techniques: ice cream made from Himalayan mangoes might not sell as well in the suburbs of Spokane as it does on Manhattan's East Side?especially not at $1.75 a pint. But any store can follow Bloomingdale's essential formula: first, know your...
...sparked the crisis, Sir John Kerr, 61, is a former judge and was appointed Governor General by Whitlam nearly two years ago. As the representative of the British Crown and the symbol of executive authority in Australia-with power to "summon, prorogue and dissolve" Parliament-the Governor General has always acted only on the advice of the leaders of the party commanding a majority in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Australian Parliament. Since his Labor Party holds 65 of the 127 seats in the House, Whitlam certainly could expect that the Governor General would take orders...