Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced that the elegant old dowager was retiring, her friends have wondered how she would spend her sunset years. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner considered asking her to join his bunny empire, and New York's Mayor Lindsay definitely hoped to have her for his Board of Education. S.S. Queen Mary, 33, ended up going to the city of Long Beach, Calif., which will transform her into a hotel and maritime museum. Long Beach's bid of $3.4 million was about $1,000,000 better than any other, said Cunard Lines Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece, and "insures that...
Britons buy more sweets than tea. In fact, at an average 25 Ibs. each per year, they are the world's most dedicated candy eaters. Hence the excitement last week after a decree handed down at London's Queen's Bench Court. There, concluding 43 days of hearings on the question of continued fixed retail prices in the candy industry, a panel of bewigged judges decided that they should be unfixed. Britain's five major candymakers-George Bassett & Co. Ltd., Cadbury Brothers Ltd., J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd., and Rowntree & Co. Ltd.-were...
...long been quite acceptable in Britain, but today there is less effort to conceal its causes. Lord Harewood, the 18th in line of succession to the throne, frequently appeared in public with a divorcee who bore him a son while he was still wed to his first wife. Queen Elizabeth, the temporal head of the Church of England, made a concession to the more relaxed morality by deciding to give him royal permission to marry the woman. Even Parliament now eagerly delves into areas that were formerly taboo. Three weeks ago, Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts in private...
...certainly wasn't the first big fish that Corrine Huff, 26, ever caught, but it was the first blue marlin to fall for her hook, line and sinker. The former Ohio beauty queen, now chief secretary and consoler of Harlem's self-exiled Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, entered the annual blue-marlin tournament in Bimini, first day out aboard Adam's Fancy made all the muscular males seasick by delicately hauling in a huge, 459-lb. blue. That was enough to win Corrine the tourney right there, but to make everyone more jealous she boated...
...quibble over semantics, the judges in Miami Beach looked over 56 nicely accentuated young ladies and selected the reigning Miss U.S.A., Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, to be the next Miss Universe. A Miami poultry farmer's daughter and an art major at the University of Alabama, the new queen plans to go into teaching if her head isn't turned by $31,000 in baubles and the lure of Hollywood...