Word: marquisate
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Of Melissa's 6,000 people, 1,840 are unemployed. The peasants live in filthy hillside hovels, ten and twelve to a room. Between them, 6,000 people hold 7,400 acres of hard, rocky land, which means an average of little more than an acre for each-barely...
...flower-filled hotel suite far from home-in Madrid, of all places. Congressman Murphy beamed and waved a 10-in. cigar: "Wonderful people, these Spaniards. I am here absolutely on my own. I'm paying my own bills. But I just happened to mention to one of these marquises that for sightseeing I missed my own car. In an hour a magnificent car was at my disposal. Of course, I volunteered to pay for the gas, but the marquis just smiled as though he thought I was joking...
Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland...
In the Villager, a prosperous (circ. 26,000), country-style weekly published in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, appeared a sentimental eulogy last week of its star columnist. "I shall always think of him," wrote Reader Katherine Caldwell, "as one of the great ... He had the lofty detachment of a...
For the present, WFDR will concentrate on news and music. Five nights a week five liberal commentators (John Carmody, Robert Nathan, Marquis Childs, Mrs. Raymond Clapper, John Herling) will alternate in bringing the news from Washington. WFDR hopes to supplement forums, educational and health programs with string ensembles, choral groups...