Word: elizabeth
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Even for a queen, a $522,000 raise is a princely sum. Although British Prime Minister James Callaghan is struggling to keep pay raises no higher than 10%, Parliament last week awarded Queen Elizabeth an 18% hike in her allowance-to $3.4 million. Besides the toll of inflation, said a palace spokesman, "there have also been extra costs due to the Silver Jubilee." Other royal coffers will get some extra coins as well. The Queen Mother is to get an additional $27,000, bringing her allowance up to $279,000, and Princess Margaret, who was awarded a $9,000 raise...
...letter is on the President's desk," Elizabeth H. Keul, administrative assistant to the president, said yesterday...
Dalton has outspent Howell 4 to 1. running up a campaign bill of some $1.2 million. Says Howell, a slight underdog in the latest polls: "We're up against money. It's their only strength, but it still talks." So does Elizabeth Taylor, who has been stumping for Dalton in a dress rehearsal for Sixth Husband John Warner's expected Senate run next year...
...rest and he could not have tea with other players afterward. Woods won the championship He may not leave the town limits of East London (50 square miles) during his ban and is therefore forbidden to play a chess match in East London's sister city, Port Elizabeth If he and his wife go to a restaurant, a friend may stop to say hello but may not sit down: that would constitute a meeting with more than one person since his wife is considered another person when friends are present...
...brought up by van [750 miles from the prison in Port Elizabeth to Pretoria]. He got into the van himself and was made comfortable. He was ill at various stages, but that was after [we had requested] medical advice as to whether he could travel and they said he could. [In Pretoria], he was put in a prison cell because that was the warrant and they immediately tried to get hold of a doctor. But the soonest they could reach him was early afternoon, so Biko was left [in prison] and treated there; that evening he died. I have never...