Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebuilding year last year the Crimson footmen posted a surprisingly strong 7-4-2 record; good enough to capture second place in the Ivies. Yesterday coach and occasional drillmaster (according to condition-weary cadets) George Ford said he felt this year would also he a rebuilding...
Captain George Walsh said the increase in sergeants lessens the need for patrolmen, since sergeants drive cars and can cover more ground than patrolmen. Letteri said, however, that there is "nothing like a footman." "You can have your cars. Footmen stop trouble before it happens. When a patrolman leaves the force, he should be replaced by another patrolman," he said...
...royal budget* while continuing to enjoy "a complex system of tax privileges and exemptions," many never fully disclosed, on her private fortune. "One has to admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought to continue to maintain "the clutch of palaces, the powdered footmen, the racing stables and polo ponies, the fleets of luxury cars, the squadrons of aircraft and helicopters, the yachts, the elaborate apparatus of consumption at its most conspicuous level...
...difficulty is that the royal budget, as presently constituted, is no longer able to support the Crown in the style to which it and its subjects have become accustomed. Of the overall $1,140,000 allotted annually, $444,000 goes for household salaries (319 full-time employees ranging from footmen to curators in the Royal Collections); $292,320 for household expenses (five royal palaces-Buckingham, Windsor, St. James's, Kensington and Holyrood-house-plus royal receptions and garden parties); $31,680 for the Royal Bounty, a fund from which the Queen contributes to charity; plus a $144,000 Privy...
...according to his friends. He actually pays rent to Margaret for the space in Kensington Palace where he does his office work, film processing and carpentry. He maintains an eight-room cottage at Nymans, the Armstrong-Jones family estate 35 miles south of London. Nymans has no gold-collared footmen nor servants. This retreat and his motorcycle are Tony's ways and means of "getting away from the telephone...