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...great-grandmother was Queen Victoria, who was photographed holding him on her lap in the last year of her life. The children of Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia were his cousins. So was Edward, Prince of Wales, later briefly King Edward VIII of England and interminably the Duke of Windsor, who was best man at his wedding. As a young man, Prince Philip, penniless but promising, married his adored young cousin Lilibet. His sister was the Queen of Sweden. Louis Mountbatten himself--and how he loved it all--was wealthy, flashingly handsome, a polo-playing friend of rajas and movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Britain's Uncle Dickie Mountbatten | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...understand why these two great writers so far apart today, it helps to look at the difference in their attitudes back in the sixties. Cleaver's own radicalism seems to have burned him out and left him to fall into the secure lap of his arch-enemy, the right wing. Cleaver was always an activist first and academian second. Back then, he characterized himself as "a full time revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America." His posts as chairman of the Black House Council and Minister Of Information for the Panthers continually placed...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Tiger and the Pussycat | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

...Perkins was battling with Northeastern's Steve Sergeant for the lead when the gun cracked to signal the final lap. As he rounded the first turn, Perkins began to kiel running straight into a gusty wind. Despite Sergeant's efforts to stay with him, Perkins extended his lead winning the race by more than three seconds...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Thinclads Split With Northeastern | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

When the gun cracked signaling the last lap of the 1500, the race had become a three man battle between Sheehan, Sapienza, and Crimson Co-Captain John Perkins...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Men Thinclads Beat Green, Brown; Women Second To Dartmouth | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...snows," says another passenger. "That really brings out the beast. All the people who usually drive--the snowbirds--get on." "You should have been here in the '70s," says a white-haired man who has obviously squandered his prime trying to figure out a way to use a lap desk while standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: Standing Room | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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