Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flush virtually undid the ancient birthplace of democracy. Ordinary counts, barons and prime ministers languished unnoticed in hotel lobbies; telephones and traffic alike broke down; and the bridegroom daily confronted a protocol officer's nightmare. The King and Queen of Belgium, the King of Norway, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, for example, arrived on the same aircraft, requiring Constantine to march out to the plane and back three separate times for the ritual of greetings and national anthems...
...bounced into the Statehouse full of zeal, immediately made a bad mistake by trying, and failing, to purge powerful House Speaker John ("Iron Duke") Thompson. He also lost political points by urging that Massachusetts should abolish the death penalty-at a time when several policemen had been shot to death and the Boston strangler continued his murder spree...
Married. Anna Maria Alberghetti, 28, Italian-born actress (Lili in Carnival) and nightclub coloratura; and Claudio Guzman, 36, TV director (The Patty Duke Show); he for the second time; in Los Angeles...
Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...last week in Malawi, formerly the British central African protectorate of Nyasaland, now African nation No. 35. At the stroke of midnight, as fireworks lit the sky over Blan-tyre's Central Stadium, the Union Jack was hauled down in the presence of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In its place rose the black, red and green banner of the newly sovereign nation of Malawi...