Word: greated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...splendorous funeral that rivaled in pomp and pageantry the state funerals of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 and the Duke of Wellington in 1852. With his flair for spectacle, Lord Mountbatten had begun to plan the ceremonies in 1976, well aware that as Queen Victoria's last living great grandson, he was a unique link to the glorious days of empire. In a BBC interview, recorded last year for broadcast when he was no longer alive, Mountbatten had hoped for "a reasonably peaceful and satisfying sort of death." No Briton took satisfaction in knowing that Mountbatten...
...other nations that had special meaning to the World War II hero. There were Sikhs in white turbans from his beloved India, Gurkhas in exotic black pillbox hats and a contingent of veterans from the U.S. and France. Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, Mountbatten's great-nephew and nephew, walked behind the casket, their faces taut with grief. So did a group of comrades who survived the 1941 sinking off Crete of the H.M.S. Kelly, captained by Mountbatten. His aging black charger Dolly, riderless with its master's burnished boots reversed in the stirrups, was also...
...suffered only 13 fatalities while killing 300 ZANU fighters and Mozambican troops. The Salisbury forces also claimed to have destroyed an armory, radar stations, fuel dumps and other installations in lightning helicopter operations that penetrated as far as 200 miles into Mozambique. The incursion, which Muzorewa said gave "a great start to the day," was launched after Zimbabwe Rhodesian intelligence reported that at least 100 Mozambican officers had slipped across the border to take command of the guerrilla forces fighting the bishop's regime...
...business is either unaffected or helped" by the energy shortage. Says he: "We don't believe people are going to stop camping, but they are going to camp close." Then too, the number of active outdoorsmen is rapidly expanding. Coleman says happily: "Our target audience is great big Middle America." Still a vigorous hunter, fisherman and tennis player, although he has given up climbing mountains, Coleman plans to stay on as chief of the company dedicated to recreation as long as his health is hearty, his work is fun and his interest is keen. Says he: "I have told...
Atlanta's Phil Niekro, who helped his brother master the knuckler, now watches his success with wistful pleasure: "It's great that we're both having good years, but I'd like to play on a contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going...