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Word: kents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asleep in his mother's arms throughout his first press conference, the three-week-old Earl of St. Andrews was soundly pro claimed by Fleet Street's eagle-eyed editors to look just like his dad. Son of Prince Edward and Katharine, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the titled but yet unchristened infant earl-tenth in line to the British throne-has an imperial adventure ahead. Along with his father, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, he will soon move to Hong Kong as the transferred regiment's unofficial mascot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Ohio's Kent State University, he flashed a .358 batting average in his senior year. But he was short, bowlegged and stubby-armed. Worse yet, he wore glasses to correct astigmatism in his right eye. Only the Twins were interested enough to make an offer. Two years ago, they signed him up for a paltry $6,000 and shipped him off to the Wilson Tobs in the Class B Carolina League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who's on Third? | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Organ Tones. He was born July 9, 1916, light-years away from the graceful world that traditionally breeds Tory leaders. His father was a master builder in the sleepy seaside resort of Broadstairs, Kent, where Charles Dickens worked on David Copperfield. "Rather a nobby place," was Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody. While other boys played on the beach, he preferred to read indoors or practice on the battered upright in the Heaths' front room. He grew up in a semidetached, six-room house beside the railway tracks that shudders every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Crossing the Channel | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

Guerrilla Methods, A.D.D.L. has quickly sprouted branches. In Los Angeles, one A.D.D.L. leader is Scientist Kent Gould, who complains, "We're all being reduced to numbers. Some place you've got to stop and take a stand." At Indiana University, the A.D.D.L. chapter has turned to guerrilla warfare. Interpreting the area code and seven digits as one huge number, they place calls by saying, "Operator, give me S. I. Hayakawa at four billion, one hundred fifty-five million, eight hundred forty-two thousand, three hundred and one." Growls Chapter Leader Frederick Litto, "If they want digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Give Me Liberty | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...Duke of Kent, 26, gay blade in the Royal Scots Greys: a son, tenth in line to the British throne: in Tver, England. Title: Earl of St. Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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