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...Charles' royal adolescence (he turns 21 in November) and his acceptance of the role and tasks of apprentice sovereign. Perhaps most important, the ceremony is designed to honor Wales, a region of Britain that too often feels overlooked by London and harbors a small but vocal separatist movement, the Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales). Finally, the event will be the biggest royal bash since Queen Elizabeth's coronation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES: THE APPRENTICE KING | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

Most Welsh nationalists disavow the Free Wales Army and the other small terrorist groups. They prefer the moderate way of the Plaid Cymru, founded in 1925 and at last beginning to gain support. The Plaid is backed by about 12% of Wales' 2.7 million population, up from only 5% ten years ago. In a 1966 by-election the party succeeded in electing its first MP. The Plaid Cymru demands autonomy for Wales, believing that Wales gets back too little from London compared to what it contributes in taxes and productivity. Culturally, it seeks to preserve and expand the ancient Welsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES: THE APPRENTICE KING | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...steps stood an open microphone. Anyone was invited to step up and unburden his spirit on the subject of "A Wesley an Education." This was a student-requested innovation. The only student to speak at any length was a dark, angular boy in a plaid lumberjack shirt. He identified himself as a political radical and film maker, quoting a Jean-Luc Godard epigram: "We are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencement, 1969: Pomp and Protest | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...could have been better, but it was entertaining since entrants were able to see both the filth and beauty of New Bedford, hear Jock Semple, and receive a $1 plaid bowling bag made in Japan for finishing 46th...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: McMahon Takes First--But not Trophy In the New Bedford 30-Kilometer Race | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

...straw hat, brown shoes, freckles, and $4 straw suitcase, he walked out of Commerce, Okla., and into the pin-striped uniform of the New York Yankees. Now, 18 seasons and 2,401 games later, Mickey Mantle put on a $155 pair of black alligator shoes, slipped into a $150 plaid sport jacket, and announced that he was retiring from baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Mantle of Greatness | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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