Word: four-year-old
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...raucous manner. Philip spent his earliest years in a Paris crowded to the rafters with the relics of outmoded monarchies. Years later, as a dashing young British naval lieutenant in Mel bourne. Australia, he described himself good-humoredly as "a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction." But as a small boy. the little Prince deeply resented the background that made him different from other people. Once when an-old friend of the family introduced him to a stranger as "Prince Philip, the grandson of a King of Greece," the proud four-year-old stormed...
...vast reaches of the Central African Federation, there is no man of consequence more accessible to his white compatriots than the Prime Minister. 30O-lb. Sir Roy Welensky, onetime locomotive engineer. But despite the fact that both Welensky and his four-year-old country-a union of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland-officially subscribe to the doctrine of "racial partnership," Welensky has remained aloof from the Africans who make up the majority of its people. "Except for his servants," says one African leader, "Welensky has hardly spoken to an African since he ascended the political platform...
...twelve, and he came under the wing of his grandfather, Jean de Craon, a notorious libertine and murderer who felt nothing was too bad to teach the boy and nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter of a Norman lord, but that was too much even for medieval sensitivities, and the Parliament of Caen blocked the marriage. So Grandfather kidnaped the young heiress to the barony of Tiffauges for him, insuring Gilles a dowry of chateaux and domains throughout western France...
...first noncommercial educational television station in the U.S.. four-year-old KUHT has chalked up quite a record in showing what ETV can do. Sponsored jointly by the University of Houston and the Houston school system, it has put on 56 telecourses, and 9,000 people have signed up for them. Aside from these, there are hours each week of concerts, lectures and forums. Says one KUHT official: "We still hear 'Who will watch ETV when I Love Lucy is on?' More people watched a forum on education on KUHT one Monday night than could have been...
...Galloping into the homestretch, Jockey Doug Dodson urged four-year-old Manassas into the lead, held off the final drive of Swoon's Son and flashed across the finish line the 6½-to-1 winner of last week's $125,400 Arlington Handicap on the grass at Arlington Park outside Chicago...