Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen's pay increase is likely to come as much by farther lifting of expenses from her shoulders as by increasing her allowance. In recent years, the government has assumed the cost of royal tours, upkeep of the royal train, and the Queen's postal bills, as well as about $100,000 of the annual cost of state entertainment. Prince Philip, who receives a taxable annual stipend of $96,000, has recently induced the Treasury to pick up the laundry and cleaning bills he runs up on state business. He has not yet had to give up polo...
...judge from the outcry that followed the New Statesman's article, Britons will continue to insist on picking up the tab for their monarchy. Crossman himself said: "I am strongly pro-monarchy. The Queen is good at her job-she is better value for the money than the Church of England-and should get the rate for it." Better that, he went on, than "a Copenhagen monarchy cycling around the streets...
...well surpass her dramatic skill. Ducking a tenacious flock of reporters eager to hear about her recent split from Husband Patrick Curtis, Raquel took up tennis and even skiing, in which she moved from beginner to high-intermediate status in three days. Add roller skating (she plays a rink queen in her new movie) and moviedom's most spectacular body seems likely to retain its impressive muscle tone. Coach Grigry pointed out another reason why Raquel should excel at competitive sports. "She has a great advantage on the court," he says. "Distraction...
...together with a slew of the original Post's oldfashioned, gray "narrative illustrations," which made it seem as if every scene were taking place in an incipient thunderstorm. Other old standbys abound. There are reprints of Tugboat Annie and Thomas Wolfe. The bylines of Paul Gallico and Ellery Queen are back, and so is that veteran Hollywood doorbell ringer, Pete Martin, with "I Call on Ali McGraw." William...
...Villain is Richard Burton, playing a closet-queen gang leader named Vic Dakin. Alternately brutal and simpering, Dakin is the sort of chap who, when revealed as a multiple killer, is described by his neighbors as "a quiet, unassuming man" and whose unbelieving mother invariably laments: "But he always kept his room so clean." Vic, in fact, takes good care of his mum, conveying her to the Brighton sun, faithfully carrying in the afternoon tea. Between such assignments, he coshes opponents and irritably castrates a chap or two. In films like this, of course, there is no such thing...