Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HIKE, and customers are underpaying bills in protest. To battle a 23% increase proposed by the Virginia Electric & Power Co., local governments are raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten says philosophically: "When you are dealing with a man's pocketbook, it is an emotional matter...
Died. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 66; in his sleep; on his estate in Sussex, England. As Earl Marshal of England, the duke choreographed royal weddings and funerals with such clockwork precision that he complained that Winston Churchill's state funeral was "two minutes late." Asked once by a newsman how he felt about work, the duke replied, "It has never appealed...
Actually, most ex-Kings and claimants to nonexistent thrones live better than their ex-subjects. Spain and Portugal seem to be the favorite spots of exile, with Switzerland a close third. Albania's Leka I, Bulgaria's Simeon II and Russia's Grand Duke Vladimir-who presumably would be enthroned as Czar Vladimir III if the Romanovs were ever restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad...
...decades. Traditionally, 90% of anthropologists return to the campus, but now colleges are cutting back sharply. Even by slowing the flow of Ph.D.s, colleges are expected to be able to employ only 25% of American anthropologists by 1990. At last month's A.A.A. meeting, President Ernestine Friedl of Duke University gingerly suggested to the 2,845 attending anthropologists that they look for work at junior colleges and in practical research-"directions for which the majority of us are ill prepared." Margaret Mead concurs about the need for practicality. In an interview with TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Galvin, Mead charged...
...indeed, was Harold Foster. Volume I of Prince Valiant (roughly, strips 1937 to 1940) follows the sturdy young nobleman with the blue-black pageboy from youth through his early squire days at King Arthur's Court. Affectionate readers may forgivingly understand why the Duke of Windsor called this strip the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past 100 years." To be continued in Volume...