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...Beatrix inherited $4,000,000 from her maternal grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, receives $83,000 a year in state salary (it will be doubled when she marries), will eventually inherit the rest of Wilhelmina's wealth, estimated at well over $100 million...
...college student, I firmly believe in our right to question everything. Our youth entitles us to be idealistic and perhaps rebellious; the state of the world that we are about to inherit entitles us to be a little cynical. But I fear that the hardest lesson some of us will have to learn is that neither idealism, rebellion, nor cynicism can successfully cope with the world-only realism. The real tragedy of those students would be a continuation of their sophomoric behavior after they leave their ivied limbo...
This is good news for varsity coach Jack Barnaby. It will be a pleasant change for him to inherit several players next year who can jump right into his starting lineup, especially since he will be losing four of his top five players...
...Fundamental Task. The fiesta mood was well founded. Of twelve Presidents who have taken office since Mexico's 1910 revolution, Diaz Ordaz, 53, is the first to inherit a prosperous and united nation that faces no immediate major problems. True to the Mexican pattern of orderly alternation between regimes that are to the left or right of center, Diaz Ordaz, who was Minister of the Interior under López Mateos, is slightly more conservative than his predecessor, who nonetheless hand-picked him for the job. As the new President made clear in his inaugural address, his administration, like...
...lightened by references to such contemporary phenomena as booing cricket umpires, which he deplores, and cosmetics, which he endorses ("God made women beautiful, and they should develop this talent"). When he recently took his text from the Sermon on the Mountain"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"-Powell turned it into a homily on how to live with an inferiority complex...