Word: royale
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Making her second state visit to the U.S., the Queen came ashore with her husband, Prince Philip, and an entourage of more than 50 from the 412-ft. royal yacht Britannia at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. In Independence Hall she presented Britain's Bicentennial gift to the U.S.: a six-ton bell cast in London's Whitechapel Foundry. which made the original Liberty Bell in 1752. Philadelphia's rough-hewn Mayor Frank Rizzo was nearly overcome by it all. "A little boy from South Philadelphia having lunch and dinner with the Queen," he gushed. "Only...
...satirical weekly Canard Enchainé last week suggested the title for a new and presumably sweaty exploitation film, Histoire d'Eau, showing that even the French can occasionally find sex of less compelling interest than water. Players briefly fled the British Open when brushfires broke out at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course. In Switzerland, thousands of fish were dying, officials said, because of oxygen depletion in their normal swimming grounds. Hordes of European citizens knew what the fish were going through: not only had the temperature got out of hand, but some British officials were worried about the increase...
...particularly unpleasant kind of unofficial intimidation is something the Swedes call den kungliga Svenska avundsjukan (the royal Swedish envy): a near universal disapproval of anyone who jumps too far outside the norm, either in the quantity of his material possessions or, by extension, the quality of his ideas. It is, moreover, nearly impossible for anyone to hide from a neighbor's scrutiny: all income-tax data, birth records and other personal documents are matters of public information, available for inspection at public records offices...
...proved the watershed year because Arnold Palmer, then the premier trendsetter in golf, turned the trick at Royal Birkdale for his first British Open...
...only can the international caliber of this year's Open trace its origins to that solemn declaration of 1861, but it was further in keeping with the Open's oldest traditions that the site for this year's contest was Royal Birkdale...