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...Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was highly unusual when Queen Elizabeth II through her spokesman publicly denounced London's Sunday Mirror last month for a story linking the Prince and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the winsome blond whom many Britons expect to be the next Queen. The Sunday Mirror's response was even more unusual...
Navy's death was not without mercy as Harvard coach Joe Bernal and his crew of swimmers graciously tried to keep the fast sinking fleet of Midshipmen off the bottom. In addition to Royal four other individuals plus a free relay squad posted unofficial wins...
...Fleet Street's old-fashioned rotary presses rolled off reams of front pages about the lithesome lass who seemed to have captured the Prince's heart. One photograph showed Diana posing in the bright autumn sunlight, nice legs plainly silhouetted through her diaphanous skirt...
...grim predicament. Flanker Ron Cuccia, who wound up with four catches for 46 yds., was underutilized throughout. Buckley never got Cuccia the ball in the first half, even though he was single covered (and not very well at that). And then Harvard needed the big play later on, the fleet former quarterback was not summoned for a reverse or flea-flicker. Buckley also stopped throwing to his backs in the second half, something he had done successfully all season long...
Throughout its 195 years as the crisply formal dowager of Fleet Street, the Times of London has written a glorious history for itself. The newspaper reported the grim news of the doomed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War and brought word to Britain of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Alas, it appears that the "Thunderer," as the Times has long been known, may soon meet its own Waterloo. Last month the paper's proprietor, Lord Thomson of Fleet, announced that the Times (circ. 315,700) and its sister Sunday Times (circ. 1,418,500) would...