Word: queene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vault and the high jump. Junior standout Geoff Stiles drew roars from the crowd with a spectacular vault of 16-ft. in the former event, while co-captain Dan Sullivan Fosbury-flopped his way over the bar at 6-ft., 8-in. to triumph in the latter. Senior Chris Queen put the shot 54-ft., 7.5-in. to complete the Crimson's clean sweep afield...
...irresistible ingenuousness. When she achieved her first success as a thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph of Dame Agatha's worst prose extolling the "small, and slender" Elizabeth II, who told a story about soot falling from her chimney to put her guest at ease...
BORN. To Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of England, 27, and Captain Mark Phillips, 29: their first child, a son; in Paddington. The first grandchild for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is fifth in succession to the British throne...
...distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters. Let's see, there was Moses, Milton, Napoleon...
...special assistant for health issues, describes it as "a ripple effect." Says he: "When Carter talks about the positive aspects of marriage about developing welfare programs that reinforce the family . . . it makes people look at marriage differently." Sociologist Etziom agrees: "We don't have a king or a queen to invest our identity with, so the President's position on these issues is of enormous importance. It will be the largest single force in American society...