Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been following us with that thing ever since we left the Crinan Canal." bellowed England's Prince Philip, 41, to a telephoto-toting Scottish newspaper photographer chasing along the bank as the duke's royal yawl Bloodhound maneuvered through locks near Fort William, Scotland. "Do you want a bloody picture of my left earhole?" he cried. At least the Scottish edition of the Daily Herald did, next day ran a picture of the regal left ear along with a verbatim account of the royal remarks...
...Beechcraft Bonanza air taxi en route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to East Hampton, L.I., crashed as it was attempting to land after a door came open on take-off (four dead−including Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the State Department chief of protocol). As a possible reason for the crash, CAB suggested that the roar of air rushing past the open door space may have panicked one of the three women passengers into interfering with the controls or the pilot...
...current boarder: Prince Charles, whose father, the Duke of Edinburgh, is Gordonstoun's most famous...
Since then, Cain has visited Princeton, Duke, North Carolina, Cornell, the University of Virginia, and, of course, Harvard. His usual technique is to spend half a day or a day at each campus, calling first on the editors of the student newspapers and gathering information from them on whom to see next. Typical questions he asks concern the relative strengths of the Young Republican and Young Democratic Clubs, the size of the local Young Americans for Freedom contingent, or the general feelings of the students at large...
...when the bands roamed the countryside in gaudy caravans, carrying a whiff of the wide world with them. But, although there are fewer bands today, the top ones are making bigger money and getting more bookings. If they wanted to, such men as Ray Anthony, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and Les Brown could probably work every day of the week playing at colleges, in high school gymnasiums and under the tents. Stan Kenton nearly does work a seven-day week...