Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blayne Heckel and Don Berg are a potent one-two punch in the pole vault. Both have flown over 15 feet in the past. The throws will be in the capable hands of strongmen Steve Niemi, Dan Jiggetts, Chris Queen, and Gilbang...
...would like to be known as Sir Charles, not Sir Charlie," announced Charlie Chaplin, 85, shortly after receiving his long-overdue knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Chaplin, who arrived for his investiture at Buckingham Palace clad in morning clothes and blue suede shoes, accepted his dubbing from a wheelchair, then retired to the Savoy Hotel to accept congratulations from Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other fans. "I was too dumbfounded to talk to the Queen," confessed Sir Charles later. Less awed was his daughter, Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 30, who came to London for the ceremonies with...
Challenged Prerogatives. Anticipating criticism, the Queen offered to provide $360,000 of the $1 million in crease out of her own income. Rather than appeasing her critics, the offer only raised troublesome questions about the extent of her private fortune, which has traditionally been exempt from both in come tax and estate duties. After last week's acrimony, Parliament is expected to challenge these royal prerogatives later this year...
...Queenly Beehive. At 8:37 a.m., the propitious moment selected by court astrologers more than a year earlier, the royal priest placed the mammoth jewel-encrusted crown on the King's head and a diamond tiara atop Queen Aishwarya's beehive hairdo. Then came salutes from the King's loyal subjects, starting with three-year-old Prince Deependra decked out in a miniature military uniform. For the afternoon parade-music was provided by regimental bands, including one of Nepalese bagpipers-the royal couple rode on the King's tusker elephant, Prem Prasad, while the other...
...care center in Manhattan. Still, when Guillermo, 29, and his fiancée, 28, a French and music teacher in New York City, travel to The Hague to be married this summer, the ceremonies will be more than a city hall affair. The bride: Princess Christina, youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Christina, partially blind since birth, and her husband will begin married life in New York with a royal blessing. "We are sure this will be a very happy marriage," says Queen Juliana, an opinion Bernhard says he underwrites...