Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeanne Campbell, 35, only daughter of the Duke of Argyll's first marriage, newspaper columnist for her maternal grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; and John Sergeant Cram III, 31, South Carolina gentleman farmer descended from Financier Jay Gould and Philanthropist Peter Cooper; both for the second time (she divorced Novelist Norman Mailer in December); somewhere in Maryland...
...time is a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and Anouilh roots his conflict in the blood enmity between Henry, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and his Saxon subject. Henry sneers at Becket as a "collaborator," but in fact the king is sycophant to the courtier, whose quiet contempt holds his master eternally in thrall...
...mind. Earlier in the week, he had declared: "I am unabashedly in favor of women." To prove it, he announced the names of a bevy of feminine appointees-one being Jacqueline Kennedy as a member of a new committee for the preservation of the White House. Among others: - Mrs. Norman Chandler, 62, wife of Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. President Norman Chandler. Job: member, Advisory Committee to the U.S. Information Agency...
...reign of William the Conqueror, who introduced Norman customs of jurisprudence to England, men called jurors reported on property owners to the king's tax collectors. The local Saxons never considered jury trials when it came to meting out criminal justice, but they gave a defendant the chance to find twelve men- who would swear that his oath was reliable. It was not until the 12th century that King Henry II sponsored the first juries in civil cases. If a verdict was upset on review, the original jurors were automatically considered guilty of perjury and fined or imprisoned. About...
...running H ft. long. The fifth column is for the presidential and vice-presidential "popularity contest." In it are listed the avowed candidates: Goldwater, Rockefeller, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Harold Stassen. Two New Hampshiremen are listed, presumably just to see their names in print: Norman Lepage, a Nashua accountant who also ran in the 1962 senatorial primary; and Wayne Green of Peterborough, publisher of a ham radio magazine, who filed for Vice President. Unlisted, but with backers busily courting write-in votes, are Richard Nixon and U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Henry Cabot Lodge...