Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greco grandee, arranged a brief interview with Pope Paul VI, who gave the newlyweds his personal blessing and their first wedding present-a crucifix. No reigning monarchs attended the wedding, but the guests included such ghost royalty as Austria's ex-Empress Zita and Portugal's Duke of Braganza. Emotionally the Roman weekly L'Espresso addressed an open letter to Irene telling her "you are like a lamb caught in a den of tigers...
Flesh v. Blood. Unable to pay on time, Antonio is haled before the Duke's court in Venice, where Shylock, refusing even 6,000 ducats, insists upon the letter of the bond, a pound of flesh to be sliced off Antonio's breast. The law's the law-the hard English common law with no mercy for a laggard debtor...
...Duke is his name, and he is 15 years old. He inhabits a dingy tenement with his mother and her latest "husband," slopes through the shabby streets of Harlem day and night with a huddle of incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than Duke, but all of them fight booze, smoke tea, use girls, snag purses and carry switchblades. A knife, alas, is not enough for Duke. He longs with mystical intensity to possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white...
Married. Melinda Wayne, 23, daughter of Hollywood's durable Duke; and Gregory Robert Munoz, 26, prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney; in Hollywood, in a ceremony performed by Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre...
Bradley, the first Ivy Leaguer to make an Olympic team for many years, was one of seven collegians named to the squad. USLA's Walt Hazzard, Duke's Jeff Mullins, Joe Caldwell of Arizona State, Jim Barnes of Texas Western, Mel Counts of Oregon State and Lucius Jackson of little Pan American College joined five AAU players on the team...