Word: queene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarter of the year-round population (8,000) organized a No Mac committee, with support from summer visitors, including Singers James Taylor and Carry Simon, Actresses Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon, Authors John Updike and William Styron. Although the island has a Dairy Queen and several pizza joints, Henry Beetle Hough, editor of the Vineyard Gazette, denounced McDonald's as "a symbol of the asphalt-and-chrome culture." Warned Hough: "Its coming means that we will have succumbed at last to the megalopolis which we have dreaded." Last week the Vineyard Haven health board refused to issue a septic...
...place in Beverly Hills, Calif. There a crowd of largely Iranian protesters vented their rage against Shams Pahlavi, one of the Shah's three sisters, who owns the $600,000 home at 1163 Calle Vista. Both Princess Shams and the ailing matriarch of the house of Pahlavi, nonagenerian Queen Mother Tajomolouk, were within the 1.4-acre estate during the outburst. Said Beverly Hills Police Captain Lee Tracy: "It was like a combat zone." The cops arrested seven demonstrators, all Iranians, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service began investigating whether deportation proceedings could be started against them...
Back in 1976, when Jerry Ford was still President and Shirley Babashoff was still queen of American women's swimming, the muscular mermaids from the German Democratic Republic capped their dramatic rise to aquatic supremacy by taking 11 of 13 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. This past summer, a band of upstart teenagers from the U.S., weaned on heavy weight-training programs and enticed by the prospect of increasingly available college scholarships, startled more than a few people at the World Championships in West Berlin by swiping nine gold medals while their supposedly awesome rivals managed only...
ENGAGED. Chris Evert, 24, queen of women's tennis; and John Lloyd, 24, English tennis pro; in Dania...
French and Italian cuisines "have been intertwined since the young French queen-to-be Catherine de Médicis coached from Italy to France in 1533 with a retinue of chefs and their recipes, plus forks, then unknown to the Gauls. The old established Italian cuisine is still among the world's most refined, largely because it has stayed close to its rural roots. When Marcella Hazan published The Classic Italian Cook Book in 1976, it was considered the definitive opus. Her sequel, More Classic Italian Cooking (Knopf; 496 pages; $15), is as valuable as its predecessor. Scooping...