Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started out as a droning House of Commons debate on the automatic right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's . House of Lords. But the argument quickly picked up steam when the talk turned to bastardy among the bluebloods. There are 25 dukes, and, said Labor M.P. William Hamilton, more than a few of them trace their lineage back to "those royal romances which always seemed to involve births on the wrong side of the blanket." As Hamilton figures it, the Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of Buccleuch...
...amnesty for all demonstrators -past, present and future-Chancellor H. Edwin Young vowed that the troops will remain "as long as needed." But at week's end, he announced that they would be withdrawn for "tonight, Saturday, Sunday and forever"-provided there were no new disturbances. - At Duke University in Durham, N.C., some 70 members of the Afro-American Society seized the ground floor of the administration building, dubbed it the "Malcolm X Liberation School" and held it for ten hours. Their principal desire: a black-studies program similar to those being started at Harvard, Yale and other Northern...
...party in Paris was called "A Night of Love," and there were those redoubtable romancers, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, he ever so mod in white turtleneck, dancing till...
...Ever since her forecast of John Kennedy's assassination came true, Soothsayer Jeane Dixon's words and prophecies have been eagerly awaited by a multitude of followers. And despite considerable skepticism, not to say amusement, in the scientific community, a small band of researchers, led by Duke University's J. B. Rhine, 73, is still pursuing the mystery of ESP, or extrasensory perception, and its related phenomenon, PK, or psychokinesis, the power of the mind to control matter...
Died. Vernon Duke, 69, Russian-born songwriter who scored many Broadway and London musical hits (Cabin in the Sky, Two Little Girls in Blue) with such well-remembered favorites as April in Paris, Autumn in New York and Taking a Chance on Love; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...