Word: duking
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There were six reigning monarchs: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the Shah of Iran, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, King Baudouin of Belgium, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg. Charles, Prince of Wales, was seated among other young royalty, including Norway's Crown Prince Harald and Sweden's Crown Prince Carl Gustav. From what was once French Africa came leaders and statesmen from 17 now independent nations, including Senegal's Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who revered De Gaulle...
...Duke, Nixon and two friends once broke into the dean's office to learn what their academic standing was. His roommate. Bill Perdue, "was boosted through a transom, found a key and located the records," Jackson reports. (It was a bad trip: Nixon discovered that he was no longer one of the top three students in his class.) In the Navy, at the Green Island airstrip in the Solomons, Nixon set himself to learning poker so that he could get into the almost nightly high-stakes games. Once he mastered the game, "I never saw him lose," one Navy...
...student of modern British history can testify, Stowell's "S" sounds remarkably like Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, grandson of Queen Victoria, son of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and brother of George...
After his 21st birthday, Prince Eddy was commissioned in the tenth Hussars, his father's regiment. On one occasion, according to Philippe Jullian in his book Edward and the Edwardians, "the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid . . . The young man's evil reputation soon spread. The rumor gained ground that he was Jack the Ripper . . ." Because of his unusually long neck, his father would tell children of the royal family, "Don't call him Uncle Eddy, call him Uncle-Eddy-Collars-and-Cuffs." Until his death...
Started by Duke University in 1965, paramedic studies are wide-ranging -from community health to bacteriology and psychosomatic medicine, plus techniques such as regulating intravenous infusions and operating respirators. As a recent Duke graduate put it: "It's not all flashing scalpels and white coats, but you can pack a lot of medicine into two years." Duke is training 40 future physician assistants a year, most of them ex-medical corpsmen. A dozen Duke graduates have already helped to set up similar programs at other medical schools. For every graduate, there are five or six job offers-most paying...