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Good question. While some Europeans may have trouble identifying the monarch of Belgium, just about everyone recognizes Merckx, the reigning king of the road. One of the most popular athletes on the Continent, the handsome Belgian dominates bike racing the way Brazil's Pelé rules soccer. Fans hail him as the "Beethoven of the bike." Sportswriters call him "the synthesis of bulldozer and adding machine." France's own great racer, Jacques Anquetil, simply shrugs: "Unbelievable...
...Beverly Hillbillies as king and queen. It is also National Beauty Queen Week, "to call local and national attention to the promotion of beauty queens and their value to the economy"-though the cause took a small set back last week when 18-year-old Robyn Louise Rawers, monarch of Redwood City, Calif., was arrested for stealing clothes and cash from a sports shop. Best of all, Tuesday is Lizzie Borden Liberation Day. While the jury acquitted the famous lady from Fall River, Mass., popular legend has long since convicted her of parricide in the bloody 1892 ax murders. "Fortunately...
...personal wealth increased almost $3.000,000. It hardly mattered. Mellon ruled the billion-dollar fortunes of a family so rich that it rarely if ever bothered to count exactly how much it was worth. His middle name was King, and he came as close to being a monarch as the U.S. allows. When he died last week at 70, of heart disease, U.S. industry in general, and Pittsburgh business specifically, lost a presence that was seldom seen but often felt...
...cause for the impression of White House isolation noted by some observers has been a "them and us" feeling in Nixon's men, an air that many beyond the castle moat are a threat to the monarch within. Haldeman mocked the critics last week by announcing that the "new password" among the Eastern media was "isolation of the President" (see PRESS). Richard Nixon's unease in public has contributed to that appearance of insulation...
...will leave, according to the seer.) Ethel Kennedy will go into politics; Ronald Reagan will lose the California gubernatorial race; and "I doubt Spiro Agnew will serve his full time in office." . . . She looked more like a heroine of the Bolshevik Revolution than the reigning monarch of Britain. But it was Queen Elizabeth II all right-facial blemishes and all-who stood so sternly in Pietro Annigoni's new portrait. Said the Italian artist, who painted a much more flattering portrait of the Queen 15 years ago: "People change over 15 years, and the Queen is no exception...