Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While he was peering out of the hatch of Apollo 16 onto the lunar landscape, Charles Duke recalls, "I was overwhelmed by the certainty that what I was witnessing was part of the universality of God." When he looked at his fresh footprints in the almost ageless lunar dust, "I just choked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life." Even the sometimes brittle Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, admits that he has changed: "I was a rotten s.o.b. before I left. Now I'm just an s.o.b...
...being Franco's grandson by marriage and the father of the Leader's only great-grandchild. Two weeks ago to mark the christening in the Pardo Palace chapel of infant Francisco Borbón Martínez-Bordíu, Alfonso and his wife Carmencita were designated Duke and Duchess of Cádiz. Franco's reasoning in restoring the monarchy was to provide Spaniards with a familiar anchor after he is gone. Cynics refer to the King-designate as "Juan Carlos the Brief." "Everywhere else," a Madrid university student complained, echoing an attitude common among young...
...some young Einstein? Not at all. The speaker was Romano Mussolini, son of Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, arriving in New York on tour as a jazz pianist. Young Mussolini, who bills himself as "a legendary name in Italian jazz," says he is a disciple of Duke Ellington and offers a repertoire ranging from Summertime to a syncopated version of O Sole...
...VISCONTI HOURS Edited by Millard Meiss and Edith Kirsch. 262 pages. Braziller. $35. This facsimile reproduction of the Visconti Book of Hours was originally commissioned sometime before 1385 by the puissant Count, later Duke of Milan, Giangaleazzo Visconti. The first part ended with Giangaleazzo's death in 1402. Some ten years later the book was resumed when his son became duke. For one reason or another, the two volumes were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more...
...pregnant young widow (Patty Duke) spends three days riding buses from Los Angeles to Minnesota to visit her mother-in-law, whom she has never met. Patty's husband, before his death in a military-plane crash, had assured her she would like his mother, but the hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal...