Word: earl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fleming's James Bond novels, and George Smiley, the deceptively bland hero of John le Carré thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; of cancer; in London. In 1979 Oldfield emerged from a brief retirement to head an antiterrorist security force in Northern Ireland following the assassination of Earl Mountbatten by the Provisional I.R.A...
...usual ("Send me everything on marijuana") and the unusual (a picture of a stained-glass window showing monks riding bicycles). Requests for pictures that the staff believes to be nonexistent are met with gentle regrets. Among the most frequently sought-after: the sinking of the Titanic, the Earl of Sandwich eating a sandwich, and the elusive Gabriel Fahrenheit, developer of the thermometric scale, an authentic picture of whom would earn a $1,000 reward from the archive. Fees for the archive's service (exclusive of royalties) can range from...
Still, Charles waited for her return before taking the next proper step: asking Diana's father for her hand. "They rang me up," related Earl Spencer, 57, "and Charles said, 'Can I marry your daughter? I have asked her, and very surprisingly she said yes.' " Spencer's reply: "I'm delighted for you both." Though later he joked: "I wonder what he would have said if I'd turned him down." The father of the bride could not contain his pride: "She is a giver, not a taker, and that is very rare these...
...royal, is not exactly working class either. The Spencers, who are related to the Churchills, have served the Crown as courtiers for generations and, in turn, been befriended by the royals. Diana's brother, Charles, 16, is Queen Elizabeth's godson. Her father, the very wealthy eighth Earl Spencer, is the late Queen Mary's godson, as well as former personal aide to both King George VI and the present Queen. Her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy, is a lady in waiting to the Queen Mother. Said a consultant to Burke's Peerage...
...many of whom face reelection, they do not stand to gain from television exposure, however brief. As recently as last October, the Judicial Conference of the U.S. reaffirmed its stand against cameras in federal courts as an inherent threat to fair trial. Almost 20 years ago, former Chief Justice Earl Warren told Friendly, then with CBS, that televison cameras would be on the moon before they would get inside the Supreme Court. It is more than 14 years, though, since a TV camera first reached the moon. -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington