Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position. "It is the first time I have met a student here," he remarked to bystanders. Moments later, a red Mini pulled up and the gangly frame of Prince Charles unfolded from the tiny car. After much public debate in Britain over the proper education of the heir apparent, the Prince of Wales had come to Cambridge to finish his formal schooling. Though two of his kingly forebears had attended Cambridge, Charles was the first royal heir to become a university man since his grandfather, George VI, and the first in history to attend as a normal undergraduate...
Died. Thomas F. ("Tommy") Manville, 73, heir to a Johns-Manville asbestos fortune, much of which he spent on his many wives; of a heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. "I'm the marrying kind," said the dapper Tommy, and he certainly proved the point, running through eleven wives in 13 marriages (longest: eleven years; shortest: 7 hours 45 minutes) in a 56-year mating game. All that sport cost him something like $2,000,000 in alimony and lawyers' fees, but Tommy was ever hopeful. Said he after a four-day engagement to wife...
...accent of the festivities was on the People's Liberation Army, and not on the Red Guard units that dominated last year's celebration. In fact, Mao said not a word; he left the speaking to Defense Minister and Heir Apparent Lin Piao. Lin's message: Now is the time to ease up on the Cultural Revolution and consolidate. "The revolution," said Lin, "has won a decisive victory. It has spread to the whole of China. Hundreds of millions of people have been aroused...
...washes away, and bigness for its own »ake becomes merely ponderous. The reason why so much critical attention and acclaim is focused on Smith's work at the present is that, even in mock-up t has the quality of permanence. His .culptures assert their authority through heir scale as much as through their size, a unique wedding of robust geometry and personal vision...
...page or two of news, though its coverage still seems sparse and its typography is fuzzy. The Post recently bought the defunct Journal-American's presses, a move that will enable it to go from 96 pages to 112 and accommodate all the advertising it has fallen heir...