Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party swung for another hour or so behind closed windows, and the other honored guest, Lynda Bird Johnson, stayed until it broke up. So did many of the other guests, who included Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey, Producer Josh Logan, Financier Laurance Rockefeller, and Ambassador and Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who will play host to Lynda when she visits Spain this summer. A Certain Kind. As it happened, that was Lynda Bird's second brush with the law during a three-day trip to New York with her mother to see some plays, do some shopping (at Peck & Peck...
...lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters" in an Amerindian dialect) and as the 23rd member...
...bomb-toting French anarchist. In her title role, Sophia gleams like a crown jewel plunked down in a series of velvety settings to no particular purpose, though she is droll as a pregnant adventuress who has to decide whether to marry and let her son be born a duke. "It's a good career for a boy," she muses. Writer Ustinov seems to be improvising party games for a page-to-screen adaptation that stalemated various other Hollywood wags off and on since 1958. As Lady L finally flounces into senility, most of her problems remain unoriginal, unfunny...
...Judy Duke, 12, one of several neighborhood small fry who witnessed the early battering game, said that she told her mother, "They are beating Sylvia something awful," adding: "My mother didn't do anything because she thought Sylvia was being beaten for being bad." Mrs. Phyllis Vermillion, who lived next door and once heard the dying Sylvia scraping a shovel on the basement floor to attract aid, testified that the girl "looked like she didn't care whether she lived or died"-but said nothing about having helped...
...report confines itself to rating the graduate departments in 29 academic disciplines at the 106 universities that turn out the most graduate degrees. Yet its author, Allan Cartter, a vice president of the council, former graduate dean at Duke University, and newly named chancellor of New York University, believes that there is "a lot of carryover" between a strong graduate program and the corresponding undergraduate program at the same school. The report is certain to be taken as a guide to where a student can get a good education in his field...