Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take care of my girl," the President admonished the ambassador. So when Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, stepped off the tourist section of a TWA jet in Madrid last week, the "unofficial" reception committee resembled the twelve days of Christmas. On hand were U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, his wife, two of her children, the U.S. deputy chief of mission, the ambassador's special assistant, the embassy press attache, two Spanish Foreign Ministry functionaries, six White House Secret Service men, 25 press photographers, and Lynda Bird watchers as thick as pears on a pear tree. After...
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.F.A., composer and jazz musician. For teaching the whole world that "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing...
...Viet Cong were playing the Apaches this time, but Actor John Wayne, 59, saw very little action as he lumbered around South Viet Nam working on a Defense Department documentary that he is narrating to explain the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia. The Duke saw plenty of the troopers, though. "I'm going around the hinterlands to give the boys something to break the monotony," he monotoned. Big John's visit was also a change of pace for the Saigon kids who'd seen some of his horse operas in dubbed versions. They ran after him whooping...
According to his pedigree, the fellow is Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Galicia and Illyria, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Cracow, Lothringen, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena and Parma. But Otto von Habsburg, 53, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Karl I), has long since given up building castles in the air. Several times he has renounced his pretensions to the nonexistent thrones, though never with enough conviction to satisfy the Austrian government, which refused him entry into his homeland. Now the government has relented. He may come back from Bavarian exile any time...
...chief forester for the Grand Duke of Baden, Karl von Drais had miles of woodland paths to patrol. To ease his task, he put together a weird contraption with two wheels, a saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push...