Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sally Quinn is certainly not a loser [July 7]. The losers are the fine, competent, hard-working women in American journalism who slave to have themselves taken seriously and then watch supposedly responsible news mags like TIME turn a twiddle-headed meatball into a princess of the "mediacracy...
...scant six feet of space separated Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko from tragedy. The first members of the royal family to visit Okinawa in 54 years, Akihito and Michiko had stopped to place a wreath at a World War II memorial when a helmeted attacker tossed a Molotov cocktail that landed two yards from their feet. Miraculously unhurt, the couple retreated to their car while police arrested two radical students for the firebombing. Okinawa was the scene of 187,000 Japanese deaths during World War II, and last week's attack served as a grim reminder...
...would do anything to get stories. Worse, certain CBS executives evidently began to believe it. Quinn describes the efforts of some of them to land her in bed, most notably those of Sixty Minutes Producer Don Hewitt, who, she says, got himself assigned to direct her coverage of Princess Anne's wedding and announced, "London is such a nice place to have an affair." Quinn also has unkind words for CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace, who was "not only telling everybody how unattractive and unintelligent I was, but was mocking my performances." (She does concede: "There is something about...
After a poor showing in the Dressage arena Princess Anne moved up to the eighth spot in the two-day standings. Another woman. American Beth Perkins, held the lead at the end of Saturday's gruelling event. Perkins, who early in the month had set a record low score for the Dressage, was riding high in the saddle going into the stadium jumping, and since she had been training for nearly a year in Hamilton, the local folk were mumbling much about Beth...
...marvellous performance riding two steeds to top finishes. Davidson on Golden Griffen won the first place Atlantic Bowl, and also rode Royal Core to the third position in the standings. Only last year's winner Sue Hatherly from Great Britain prevented a one-two Davidson sweep. As for the Princess, she captured the last slot in the top ten standings...