Word: kent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tumultuous welcome. King Olav's merry ways broke down all reserve. Stepping from his coach at Edinburgh's Princes Street station, he gallantly saluted Queen Elizabeth II, then bussed her on the cheek; in courtly succession, he kissed the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. As he rode next to the Queen in a state landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King. Then the King was admitted to Scotland's oldest order of chivalry...
...called "St. Grottlesex"* schools are supposedly ultra-swank as well as churchy (Episcopal). Yet Kent treats its 292 boys like poverty-vowing lay brothers. They make beds, wait tables, scrub floors, do K.P., and the consequent saving is passed on in the form of sliding-scale tuition. Despite its monasticism, Kent recently opened a "coordinate" school for 200 girls, who even attend some classes with boys...
BREEZY Robert Mondell Ganger, 59, chairman of D'Arcy Advertising of Manhattan and St. Louis, was hardened in the competitive fires of manufacturing in the early 1950s when, as president of P. Lorillard Co., he was instrumental in launching Kent cigarettes. As a result, he has scant patience with the pseudo-academic theorizing of some admen, instead talks to businessmen in their own lingo: "The objective of advertising has always been to sell goods at a profit." A handy man with a trombone, Ganger (rhymes with hanger) paid his way through Ohio State ('26) by playing in campus...
...reason for the delay was fairly obvious. As a union organizer the woman had to spend most of her time with the Negro community and consequently became unpopular with the whites. Niether she nor her two Negro partners came from Kent County, and the team was called "a group of urriners" bu the local newspaper. The white community might be unwilling to act violently toward her but it wasn't about to help her out when she got into trouble...
...bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburbana homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid Luxuriousness of life here in Kent Country...