Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most cases, the couples have made it for their individual news value, not for something they did, or did not do, as a family. Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been on the cover five times, more than any other woman, but never with Prince Philip, who made it once in his own right. Between them, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were reported in twelve cover stories (she in four and he in eight), but they too never appeared together. All told, only 14 couples have been featured together, led by Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, who were pictured twice. Jacqueline Kennedy...
...world as "sugar and spice," looks forward to being "Daddy's little girl," then becomes a newlywed who "whistles while she works" and ends up as an "everyday housewife" whose world is circumscribed by "ring around the collar" and who dreams only of winning daytime television glory as "Queen...
After jet planes drained the profits from its once lucrative transatlantic passenger trade, Britain's Cunard Steam-Ship Co. sold the money-losing Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth to American investors, who hoped to make a royal killing by converting the ships into dockside attractions. From the beginning, the new owners have been beset by problems. So far they have spent $40 million on the two uncompleted projects, and by every indication the money will not be recouped for years...
...city of Long Beach, Calif., bought the Queen Mary three years ago for $3,000,000, planning to transform her into a luxurious 400-room hotel, with a Museum of the Sea designed by Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Since then, conversion costs, paid for mainly out of the city's tideland oil revenues, have leaped from an original estimate of $13.5 million to $57 million. Work was delayed at the start while A.F.L.-C.I.O. construction craft unions won a jurisdictional victory over maritime unions, which immediately boosted labor costs by 50% . The completion date, originally set for the summer...
...Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (9) 10. From Those Wonderful Folks...