Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STROLLIN' '20s (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Langston Hughes's memento of Harlem, with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll and Duke Ellington...
...very careful with stairs," the duchess explained gently. "Oh hell," said the Duke of Windsor, 71, spryly negotiating the two flights down to the projection hall of Paris' Marbeuf cinema. Then the duke settled down with the duchess to stare raptly at a grainy, long-ago history called A King's Story, a documentary telling how Britain's Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 to marry "the woman...
ANATOMY OF POP: THE MUSIC EXPLOSION (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Bennett, the Dave Clark Five, Duke Ellington, the Supremes, Richard Rodgers, Gene Krupa and Billy Taylor in a joint lecture on the Big Beat...
MONTEVERDI: IL BALLO DELLE INGRATE (Nonesuch). This musical play of 1608 taught the ladies of the Duke of Mantua's court a moral: Make love or you will go to Hades. As horrible examples, Pluto brings up from his dark kingdom an eternally damned bevy of pale beauties who, when on earth, "ungrateful, held every lover at a distance." Edwin Loehrer and the chorus and orchestra of the Società Cameristica di Lugano give the embryonic opera a convincing performance...
...offices across the U.S. Representatives at every NASA installation and most major military bases teletype weekly reports to Burbank on what hardware these key customers are likely to want next. To sell abroad, Lockheed has created a "foreign service corps" that includes many influential Europeans. The company hired the Duke of Edinburgh's equerry, for instance, to help sell the C-130 Herky Bird to the British, landed orders for 48 planes. Since 1962, Lockheed has taken in nearly $500 million in foreign sales, now earns 25% of its profits abroad...