Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward Finch Cox, living symbol of the dreams and aspirations of millions of decent young Americans. What divine justice that this young man, who refused to betray the values his forefathers cherished, should be rewarded with the hand of America's own princess, Tricia Nixon...
...work and the government is trying to hold union wage demands to 5%. Mainly, the dissenters concentrated their fire on the raises for other members of the royal family: the Queen Mother, to $237,500; Prince Philip, to $162,500; the Duke of Gloucester, to $112,500; Princess Margaret, to $87,500; and 21-year-old Princess Anne...
...Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family-she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky-made her a target of the Bolsheviks, who sacked her St. Petersburg mansion during the 1917 revolution. Forced to flee the country in 1920, she later established a studio in Paris, where she taught for 35 years. Kschessinska was 63 when her farewell performance at London...
What about the buzz that Queen Elizabeth is most unhappy because Princess Anne, 21, is really serious about handsome London Realtor Richard Meade, 32, gold-medal-winning show jumper on Britain's Equestrian Team? "Silly gossip," pooh-poohed the palace spokesman. "He is numbered among her friends." No doubt about that. After British Show-Jumping Star Harvey Smith publicly remarked that European Horse Trial Champion Anne was "nowhere near Olympic standard," he got a fast telegram from Meade-not exactly challenging him to a duel, but offering to bet him $600 that he would beat Smith at the Badminton...
...Money and fame are not enough to make the Cat Pack-Johnny Carson, Ted Kennedy and John Lindsay are out of it, so is Nelson Rockefeller, though his brothers David and Laurence are in. Some husbands are in while their wives are not (Cat Lord Snowdon and Non-Feline Princess Margaret), and vice versa (rich and social Manhattan Councilman Carter Burden, out, and his pretty wife Amanda, in). Among the 67 on the list -which includes five dress designers and three interior decorators-Richard M. Nixon is nowhere to be found, but No. 67 is Chou Enlai...