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Like so many of the approximately 25,000 spectators who turned out for the Braemar Highland Games in Scotland, Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, donned their tartans. During the opening ceremonies, however, Diana's highland fling turned a bit flippant: as the band struck up God Save the Queen, the young Princess continued chatting with the Prince. Hardly the proper reaction, especially when the subject of the song is standing a few feet away. Without saying a word, Queen Elizabeth turned to her daughter-in-law with that now famous "We are not amused" look...
...urgent pleas for $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Since then, Chrysler's sales have risen 23% over those of a year ago, and the plants that make the compact K-car are running on overtime. Now there is growing optimism at the company's Highland Park, Mich., headquarters that in the three-month period ending June 30, Chrysler may break even or perhaps show a small profit. If so, that would mark the first time since December 1978 that Chrysler has been in the black...
...looking for a challenge from Pleasant Colony. Finally, as the horses headed into the home stretch, Summing would wait no longer. He burst into a four-length lead. Said Martens: "He just dragged me out front." When Pleasant Colony finally made his move, it was too little, too late. Highland Blade closed to finish second by a neck, and Pleasant Colony was fading as he came to the wire 1½ lengths behind the leader. Summing, who paid $17.80 to win, finished in 2 min. 29 sec., one of the slower times in the 113-year history of the Belmont...
Cocaine, one of the most popular and most expensive illicit drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
...fall of 1970, John Jr. began classes at Highland Park High School, where his sister was a senior. That year Diane Hinckley apparently burst forth as a campus star; she performed in a school operetta, she was head cheerleader, homecoming queen candidate, vice president of the choir, member of both the student council and the A-students' National Honor Society. There are at least ten pictures of her in the yearbook, which cited her as one of the class's eight "favorites." She was a formidable sibling presence for Sophomore John...