Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ulan of New Jersey's Hackensack Hospital goes so far as to estimate that 50% of the patients in his hospital might be treated at home. Under many private insurance plans, however, the policyholder gets no payment unless he has been hospitalized. According to Dr. Ray Brown of Duke University, "insurance actuaries have been the architects of the medical care system...
...over the U.S., education benefits directly and indirectly from state and federal tobacco (to say nothing of liquor) taxes. Many university endowments keep tobacco stocks in their portfolios, prizing their steady earnings. And one great American university was founded with tobacco money, from the fortune of James B. Duke...
...capital of Nuku'alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among 3,000 guests who knelt on mats in the malae (palace park), ate (with fingers) such South Sea exotica as lupuhi -chicken and duck broiled in coconut sauce-and joined Tongans in consuming vats...
...Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke of Alba, the Duke of Lerma and the Duke of Pinohermoso (who once commandeered the couch in the ladies' powder room rather than sleep in another hotel), the Spanish aristocracy still faithfully flocks to the Maria Cristina every summer. "We cater to a certain class of people...
...many-splendored diplomat is Edward Kennedy Ellington, 68. Invited to Washington to grace a White House dinner honoring Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his Queen, the Duke had just spooned into his dessert when the background musicians, a championship jazz group from North Texas State University, ventured into Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were...