Word: royale
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...scholars picked by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences last week to share the $125,000 Nobel Prize in Economics have many things in common. Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal and Austrian-born, British-naturalized Friedrich A. von Hayek are both, at 75, still vigorously writing and teaching as visiting professors - Myrdal at the City College of New York and Von Hayek at Salzburg University. Both men achieved early recognition, as the academy noted, "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations." And both gained their widest audiences by going beyond the economist's blackboard...
...applies to the 50 pages of his drawings, mostly "technical," on view at the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C., this month. It is the largest group of Leonardos yet seen in the U.S., or indeed anywhere in the world since the miraculous show of the royal family's Leonardo collection at Buckingham Palace in 1969. It accompanies an ambitious publishing project-the McGraw-Hill five-volume facsimile of the so-called Madrid codices: two recently discovered Leonardo notebooks, edited and translated by the late technological historian Ladislao Reti, to be published this month...
...crew competed in the elite division II at the Nottinghamshire International Regatta and ended up fifth, competing against world-class competition. Then came the Henley Royal Regatta where Kirkland House competed in the Ladies Challenge Plate and advanced to the quarterfinals...
...politicians' wives have played a far more public role than elsewhere. But it is growing in other countries, particularly where press and television coverage is intense. Early in September, the vivacious 26-year-old wife of Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau entered Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital and said, "I'm under psychiatric care for severe emotional stress, but I think I'm on the way to recovery...
...Barnes' curse on the powerful; everyone at the court, from the Queen's talking parrot on up, plays his or her part in the general corruption; from the torturer devoted to his craft to the amiable, worldly Archbishop; and back down to the scatalogical court washerwoman, who sniffs out royal secrets from the royal laundry--a sort of seventeenth century A. J. Weberman...