Word: kent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With an ignominious "L" (for learner) adjoining its New Jersey license plates, a beige, cruiser-sized 1960 Cadillac painfully navigated the narrow lanes of ancient Sevenoaks, Kent, 20 miles from London. At the helm having a go at the British driver's test: the richest American, Oilman J. Paul Getty, 68, a 50-year road veteran who had let his U.S. license expire. After successfully wheeling through the test despite the handicap of his outsized chariot, the thriftiest of billionaires solemnly explained: "I drove this because it's the only...
Although royal prerogative has relieved her of official duties during her pregnancy, Britain's Princess Margaret, 30, has no intention of undergoing a solitary pre-confinement. Back in London after at tending the Yorkshire wedding of her cousin, the Duke of Kent, she accompanied Husband Antony Armstrong-Jones to the opening of the Leningrad Kirov Opera Ballet Company, happily joined the packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued...
Married. Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent, 25, captain in the Royal Scots Greys, currently eighth in succession to the British throne; and Katharine Worsley, 28, onetime schoolmarm, daughter of a former Yorkshire County cricketer; in York Minster...
...citizenship under Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution. In Edwards v. California (1941), the court tossed out, as an illegal abridgment of a citizen's privilege, a Depression-born California law aimed at keeping the migratory Okies out of the state. Three years ago, in Kent v. Dulles, the court for the first time invoked due process clause of the Fifth Amendment in ruling in favor of free travel. "The right to travel," wrote Justice Douglas for the majority, "is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without the due process...
...team has already mapped a tentative schedule for a proposed Christmas trip to England and France. It lists two games In London, one at Oxford, one at Kent, and a wind-up contest against the Racing Club of Paris...