Word: fleets
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...gave me a hint of the energy and persistence one needs to gather information on a royal family preserving the aura of the kings and queens of old." For this week's cover, Cronin learned even more about perseverance by watching the watchers of the royals. "The Fleet Street reporters and photographers are a breed unto themselves," she reports, "devilishly competitive, clever and professional. The chase and the 'hit' [scoop] get their blood up." Cronin, who journeyed from Buckingham Palace to Acapulco last week in pursuit of the royal family, finds her fellow reporters' zeal...
...welcome the good notices will be. The fact is that those at home have caused great consternation in recent weeks. And what seems most surprising is that much of the press rancor has lashed about the lovely head of the nation's new royal sweetheart, the Princess of Wales. Fleet Street's raucous tabloids, whose scuffling reporters and photographers first caught and transmitted the "Shy Di" craze, now clearly believe that the Princess is the creation and rightful property of the press. The newspapers praise or torment her according to their own royal whims, and rage when she balks...
About one half of the department's $175.000 snow removal fund had been spent when the plowing fleet finished yesterday's operation at around midnight, said acting Public Works Commissioner Everett R. Kennedy. The budget can accommodate four large snow-falls, he added...
Automakers also are being helped by renewed customer interest in larger cars, on which they make more money, spurred partly by the weakening in gasoline prices as the OPEC cartel loses its grip. Rust also is Detroit's friend: more and more cars in the U.S. auto fleet are older ones (average age: seven years) and will need to be replaced sooner or later. This year will not be a great one for Detroit. But at last there seems to be cause for believing that good times, if not around the next bend, could be around the one after...
Down 62-44 with just under 12 minutes remaining, the cagers staged a rally that soon brought the Briggs Athletic Center crowd of 800 back into the contest. The Crimson strung together eight unanswered points to come within range of the fleet-footed Bruins...