Word: lancasterism
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If the Prince of Wales's political power seems insubstantial, he has considerable monetary influence. He is believed to be one of the richest men outside the Arab world. Queen Elizabeth II's fortune has been estimated at between $20 and $140 million, and Charles stands to inherit this when...
Much of that money has gone for television commercials in a kind of surrogate Battle of the Long-Distance Pitchmen. AT&T employed Actor Cliff Robertson, who had earned a reputation for scrupulous honesty by blowing the whistle on a 1977 Hollywood embezzlement scandal, for a reported salary of $2...
Steven, considered mild-mannered around Naples, where the freshly widowed Margaret Benson had moved from Lancaster, Pa., in 1980, wept twice during the trial. When the verdict was pronounced, he sat in choked silence. The defense planned to appeal.
Roy McNeely is pleased that after a career as a truck driver and a guitar player he has hit on a role that carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal...
In Washington, a collection of consumer, environmental and scientific groups known as the Coalition of Environmental/Safe Energy Organizations called for a complete phaseout of nuclear power plants in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, protesters in Lancaster and Dauphin counties vowed to increase efforts to prevent the reopening of the reactor at...