Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goose belongs at present to the Aero Club of Southern California, a non-profit aviation group. Early next year it is scheduled for exhibition by the Wrather Corp., which also owns the Queen Mary, in a huge geodesic dome at Long Beach. That sounds fine, a dignified last berth for a plane too noble to break up for scrap. But here is what tickles the short hairs on the back of the neck: some time this summer, Wrather executives plan to taxi the Goose, under its own mighty power, to the dome site. The pilot in charge will have strict...
...accepted the offer of an early discharge. Embassy Chargé d' Affaires L. Bruce Laingen rebuffs reports that he will run for public office. "He'd be good at it," said his wife Penelope. "But how could I leave the foreign service?" he countered. Richard Queen, of Lincolnville, Me., whose multiple sclerosis is in indefinite remission, is back at a State Department desk in Washington while awaiting a prized post as an ambassadorial aide in London. Says he: "I don't want any more pressure, any more tension...
...teacher-or even any parent. The politics of the future King of England are not a matter for the public record, although Mountbatten pointed out that "Charles is completely devoid of color prejudice. He just can't understand what the prejudices can be about. In this respect, the Queen, Philip and Charles are the complete antithesis of the Duke of Windsor...
...princess's perks remain mightily seductive, however, to a popular imagination fueled on storybooks full of wise kings and gentle queens and tall palaces. One knows Lady Diana read some of those same fairy tales, as certainly as one knows that, when they look to be coming true on July 29, she will continue to shine and star. Always, of course, within the bounds of what is seemly; the consort's luster must not dim the King. Eventually, as Queen, Lady Diana will wear a crown with the 109-carat Kohinoor diamond as its centerpiece. This royal geegaw...
...grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer, the United Kingdom's one-eighth American future queen...