Word: duking
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...next president, the Australian Conservation Foundation proudly announced, would be none other than Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Labor Party Senator James Keeffe promptly resigned his membership with a blast: "The finances of the organization cannot be stretched to cover traveling expenses for a national president who has his headquarters 10,000 miles away." Right on, editorialized The Australian, citing the appointment as a step "back into the mould of the great Australian cultural fringe. Is it still necessary that, for a venture to be respectable, it must have an outsider at the head of it?" Prince...
...used to be that "only one approach was tolerated," explained Menuhin. "But now they are beginning to see that there may be two or more approaches to anything. That is what I mean by sophistication." Also in Moscow, Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko commented on the sound of the great Duke Ellington, whose band has been packing in the Red cats for a series of 22 concerts. "A bit old-fashioned," said the poet, "but perfectly executed...
...Bear" Bryant and Babe Parilli. 2. Dick Kazmaier. 3. Howard "Hopalong" Cassady or Bob Ferguson. 4. Henry "Red" Sanders. 5. "The Chinese Bandits." 6. Bill Dyas. 7. Southern Methodist, 32-28. 8. Duke Carlisle or Scott Appleton. 9. Rod Sherman. 10. M.S.U.-Regis Cavender or N.D.-Bob Gladiaux. The picture is of Calvin Hill...
Welch's list of "First Rank" schools provides no surprises: Chicago, Duke, Harvard, Princeton Seminary, Vanderbilt, Yale, and the Columbia-Union Seminary combine. He downgrades as merely "Marginal" the doctoral programs at eight church seminaries, among them the only Lutheran, Episcopal and United Church of Christ programs and two of the three Presbyterian ones. He also gives a Marginal rating to the programs at Fordham, Temple, U-C Santa Barbara, Saint Louis, Southern Cal, Catholic University and Drew University...
Awaiting Band Leader Duke Ellington when he arrived in Minsk, the second stop on his five-city concert tour of Russia, were a dozen New York cut T-bone steaks. They had been flown in at the request of the U.S. State Department, which had heard that the Duke was wasting away-at the rate of five pounds per day-on Russian cooking. "This is a lie," roared the Duke. "I weighed about 173 when I left the States. But the way my stomach is sticking out now, I know I weigh a lot more." Besides, he added, "I like...