Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell...
First he had the beastly taste to turn the family's ancestral Woburn Abbey into a ducal Disneyland, with a zoo and souvenir stands. Now Britain's merrily huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them...
...guard outside the U.S. Air Force PX in Madrid. "The rule says no slacks allowed." The rule had been imposed in deference to Spanish propriety on orders from the commander of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General Stanley Donovan. Clad in grey flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they needed for that afternoon...
...comes, it will come slowly. But to deny the possibility is to deny peace itself." He still held hope that "we can strengthen the U.N.-not simply as a forum for debate, but as an arena for the solution of disputes." The opposite point of view was taken by Duke University's Arthur Larson, who felt that devastating blows had been dealt the rule of law not only by the India-Pakistan war but also by the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic and the bombing of North Viet Nam. "Now people seem to act first and explain later...
...This is my greatest opportunity," beamed Duke Ellington, 66. "I'd be afraid to come in if I didn't believe in what I was doing. The cathedral might fall on my head." Buttressing the Duke's belief at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral were Dean Julian Bartlett and California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, who think that the Sept. 16 experimental concert of Ellington's specially composed sacred music will be one of their "greatest opportunities" to "display the glory of God's creation." The music will be based...