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Swing. Splash. Surprise. No one was more surprised than First Lady Nancy Reagan, 59, at the successful christening of the 560-ft. guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Ticonderoga at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Said she: "All I could think of was 'Lord, I am going to go down in history with Mrs. Truman!' " First Lady Bess Truman had struck out when she tried to crack a champagne bottle against the nose of the C-54 U.S. Capitol in 1945. Though that plane got no kicks from champagne, this ship did. Nancy, a righty (natch), uncorked a swing...
Like roller disco and hot tubs, land leasing is most popular in California, but it was hardly invented there. In 1632, King Charles I of England leased a huge tract of land on Chesapeake Bay to Lord Baltimore. The rent: two Indian arrows annually, plus one-fifth of all the gold and silver found on the property. Lord Baltimore established Maryland Colony on the land and leased out parcels to settlers. Ground rents are still a tradition in Baltimore. More than half of the 50,000 homes in Baltimore's inner city are on leased land. The contracts...
...lord count, you shan't have her, you shan't! Because you are a great lord you think you are a great genius. Nobility, wealth, honors, emoluments--it all makes a man so proud! What have you done to earn so many advantages? You took the trouble to be born, nothing more. Apart from that, you're a rather common type. Whereas I--by God!--lost in the nameless crowd, I had to exert more strategy and skill merely to survive than has been spent for a hundred years in governing the Spanish Empire... (Barzun...
...Monsieur Count, you won't have her, you won't! Because he's a great lord, he thinks he's a great genius. Nobility, fortune, rank, station all these make him so proud! And what did he do to deserve such advantages? Went to the trouble of being born, that's all! For the rest he's ordinary enough. Whereas I--by God! Lost among the obscure crowd, I've had to deploy more skill and cunning just to survive than it's taken to rule all of Spain for the last hundred years... (Leib...
...Lord God Made Them All. Herriot