Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Staff, and the other service chiefs, followed by eight officers of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars-Churchill's first regiment-bearing Sir Winston's medals. Behind the gun carriage strode the top-hatted men of the Churchill family, led by his son Randolph. In a carriage lent by the Queen were Lady Churchill and her two daughters Sarah and Mary. The march was accompanied by music of the Drum Horse and State Trumpeters in their velvet jockey caps and gold-laced jackets. Band after band-ten in all-appeared at appointed intervals in order...
...Litchfield Park, which it hopes will become a satellite city of 90,000 people by 1985. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. is busy with six projects, ranging from a Houston industrial park to a resort and retirement center in Portugal. Hearst Corp. plans to turn part of the late William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon ranch into a residential complex. Castle & Cooke, the Hawaiian food combine, is finishing off a 15-story medical building in Los Angeles, has major investments in California residential projects, and is planning a "Rockefeller Center of the Pacific" for downtown Honolulu...
...officially announced to the public, took the unprecedented step of requesting Parliament to accord her former Prime Minister a state fu neral, the first such tribute to a commoner since Gladstone's death in 1898. Churchill will be buried in a tranquil Oxfordshire graveyard beside his parents: Lord Randolph Churchill and his beautiful American wife, Jennie Jerome...
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a prominent and controversial Tory politician, and his American-born bride, Jennie Jerome of New York, Churchill was an erratic scholar as a boy, but he was finally graduated from Harrow and from Sandhurst, England's military academy...
...also bearishly pulled out of the stock market in time to save his fortune from the 1929 crash. Fearing revolution and contemptuous of his fellow capitalists for not foreseeing the crash, Kennedy became an early, enthusiastic supporter of his old antagonist Franklin D. Roosevelt. He worked hard on William Randolph Hearst, who controlled the California delegation. Hearst finally came around, and Kennedy liked to boast that he was responsible, "though you don't find any mention of it in history books...