Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once her victory was assured on election night, Jane Byrne did a most uncharacteristic thing: she smiled. Next day, she did something even wilder: she spent six hours at an Elizabeth Arden salon. Around Chicago's city hall, glum party workers warned each other that life would never be quite the same...
...Elizabeth got a little bit better than she gave
...well, a ransom fit for a queen. Not that Elizabeth II was exactly ad venturing for booty, but when Britain's monarch returned home last week from a three-week tour of six Persian Gulf states, she brought back an assortment of trinkets worth an estimated $2 million. Quite a haul, even for someone who is reputed to be the world's wealthiest woman...
According to one British correspondent who accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on the tour, Elizabeth was "slightly stunned" by the lavishness of the gifts bestowed on her by welcoming sheiks and princes. In Dubai, for example, the Queen gave "a little gasp" when she opened her present from Sheik Rashid: a necklace studded with sapphires surrounded by 300 diamonds, with matching earrings and ring. That was in addition to a solid gold tray, on which stood a pair of solid gold camels beneath two solid gold palm trees. Bahrain gave her a solid gold palm tree, 18 inches high...
...Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor in English, said last week she did not see how the department's limited faculty resources could meet the legislation's requirements. This year only one English professor teaches a sophomore tutorial. McKinsey contends the department can't increase professors' participation in tutorials, without reducing the number of lecture courses offered--a sacrifice the department is unwilling to make...