Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disciple named Samson and bore him a son when she was 16 years old, but denies claims by defectors that she cohabited with Moses David for a couple of years. In 1973 she married another Mo disciple named Emanuele Canevaro, 35, who also happened to be the Italian Duke of Zoagli and Castelvari. The duke has welcomed the Children to Poggiosecco, his family's idyllic farm and wine-producing estate near Florence. Police raided the farm headquarters two years ago but found no evidence of wrongdoing. Indeed, neighbors in the nearby village of Grassina described the Children...
...Lyndon Johnson's sidesplitting acts when he resided hereabouts was on George Parr, the "Duke" of Duyal County in Texas. Lyndon would imitate Parr calling in on his old-fashioned crank telephone. "Can you hear me, Lyndon, can you hear me?" L.B.J. the mime would quaver, holding up an imaginary two-piece phone. Then Johnson would act out his own role. "Yes, yes, go ahead, George." And sure enough, the Duke would report another election landslide for his chosen candidates, Lyndon being one. Johnson was funny imitating Parr. The thought of Parr was funny, being...
Died. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 49, younger brother of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; of a heart attack; at his estate in Florence, Italy. A dashing, fun-loving sportsman, Charles was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality. In 1967 he wed Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of former U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon...
Spark-Plug Center. North Carolina's Research Triangle Park has not only survived but has become the largest such complex in the country. It is set in the geographic triangle formed by Duke University (seven miles away), the University of North Carolina (twelve miles) and North Carolina State (15 miles). Twenty-five Government, corporate and nonprofit research organizations are located in the park's 5,400 acres of rolling, pine-covered hills. Over 60 buildings, some of them dramatic, futuristic structures like the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters, are widely separated in the woods-with plenty of room to stretch...
...prefers to see itself as egalitarian though it is much impressed by class. Buck and Jim turned their raft into a royal bedchamber for the King and the Duke, Grace Kelly got a regal send-off when she left Hollywood to become Princess to the world's finest amusement park, and the Kennedys were empurpled by the press...