Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Prince of Wales and Heir Apparent to the throne of Great Britain. You are also Charles Windsor, an intelligent and well-educated young man with a mind of your own and the opportunity to use it, if you want to. Certainly, we want you to. If you are to be a king at all, you must be our king. I do not mean that you should agree with us, for we do not agree among ourselves. But if you showed clearly that you were preoccupied by our preoccupations, that you can dance to our music and sing...
...rusty; Graham himself complained that the ten days in the Garden, however demanding, hardly gave him time to warm up. And part of the trouble may be that he is reaching too far for sophistication. One embarrassing slip suggested how scholarly allusions can misfire. When he mentioned "that great German philosopher, Goethe," Graham mispronounced his name to rhyme with growth...
Afterward, Hiskey telephoned and, says Moody, "spoke a prayer for me in hopes that my success wouldn't change me or spoil my outlook." The new Open winner also received a call from President Richard Nixon. "He said my winning was a great thing for this country," Moody recalls. "Not for the elite, but for the middle and lower classes. I don't know what he meant by that exactly." But he did understand the President's advice that he should remain a civilian rather than re-enlist in the Army, because "you are doing better where...
Died. Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 77, World War II hero and one of the great figures of British military history; of a rupture of the aorta; in Slough, England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war. In 1940 he conducted the evacuation at Dunkirk; in 1942 he commanded the British Army's fighting retreat through the Burma jungles. Later that year, he masterminded the defeat of the Afrika Korps, and in 1944 he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...
...Francisco's I. Magnin & Co. literally goes to great lengths to please women who are partial to its high fashion and unperturbed about the tall prices that go with it. For favored customers who are far from its 21 stores in the West, Magnin offers to fly a fitter, a salesperson and a collection of the latest styles anywhere in the U.S., free of charge. Such excursions often produce orders...