Word: goldings
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...Letters Patent of investiture will be read, first in English and then in Welsh. The Welsh rendition is an innovation aimed at placating Wales' tribal sensibilities. While the Welsh is being intoned, the Queen will present Charles with a sword, place a coronet on his head, slip a gold ring on his finger and hand him a gold rod of government. The coronet is a modern design of Charles' own commissioning, part of his personal program to revive British gold-and silverwork. Thus accoutered, Charles will kneel before the Queen, place his hands between hers and repeat the ancient oath...
...Magnin's charm while spreading out-he added five stores-and opening some rich new merchandising lodes. He got Magnin's into the boutique concept early on, dividing selling space into small shops devoted to Courreges and other designers. He has not tampered with amenities like the gold-and-marble ladies' room, which makes the San Francisco store something of a tourist attraction and is duplicated in all Magnin's stores. Rival retailers take more interest in Magnin's 24-carat charge accounts, some of which run to $30,000 a month...
...management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could back his sharp tongue with a strong, 210-lb. frame, Lewis soon became a labor organizer. Often, days of organizing in small...
Died. General Sir Miles Dempsey, 72, British infantry officer who commanded the rear guard at Dunkirk, and led the British Second Army when it stormed Normandy's Gold, Juno and Sword beaches in 1944 but later passed up offers of higher command and resigned because "I have spent too much of my life smashing things up"; in Yattendon, England, precisely 25 years after Dday...
Miss Moore won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1951 for her Collected Poems. She has received a host of other awards, including the 1951 National Book Award, the National Book Award, the National Institute of Arts and Letters gold medal, and the gold medal of the Poetry Society of America. Her recent works include The Arctic Ox in 1964 and Tell Me, Tell...