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Big or small, the royal houses appear in many ways to be ingenious waxwork shows, as relevant to contemporary problems as alchemy or elephant worship. In the eyes of their critics, their appeal is to nostalgia rather than innovation, to complacency rather than initiative. Paul Johnson, biographer of Elizabeth I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROYALTY The Allure Endures | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

King Leka of Albania, 37, is the tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) of the monarchs-in-waiting and comes from the youngest royal house (founded 1928). Married to the daughter of an Australian sheep farmer, he lives near Madrid. He is a friend of Ronald Reagan (to whom he once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Keepers of the Flame | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Unlike Steve Austin, who regularly uses his brawn to brain villains, Jaime seldom uses her strength to do more than defensively trip or trick her opponents. ABC also seems to have decided that she can get along without a coherent plot. The typical show seems to be a collection of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The $500,000 Timex | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

Jumbo Mark Fisher got the hit, a single, after two walks, knotting the score at 1-1. The third walk loaded the bases, and a groundball hit by Rich Elliot somehow eluded the poised glove of Crimson shortstop Paul Halas. With the score 3-1, John Connors lofted a sacrifice...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: Jumbos Thunder Past Crimson Batmen | 4/23/1976 | See Source »

I'm the last one, and when it gets to be my turn I slide up to the podium and wait a couple of half-seconds to let everyone calm down from laughing so hard at the last person, whose speech was kind of funny. I had around three or...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Big Game | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

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