Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestigious Royal Henley Regatta, July 10-13 at Henley-on-Thames, England--considered the "Olympics" of lightweight rowing--promises to be the high point of the Crimson trip. At Henley, the lights will race in the Thames Challenge Cup, which attracts most of its competitors from American colleges and prep schools and British public schools...
...Only three whole-human -lung transplants are known to have been attempted in medical history, and the longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer to damage...
Making the Most. One of Wilson's better products has been President McColough. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, McColough served in the Royal Navy in World War II, got a Harvard Business School degree in 1949, quickly decided that "business is more interesting in the U.S. than in Canada." He almost changed his mind in 1954 when, after five years with small Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., he went for a job interview at Xerox (then Haloid). "It wasn't very impressive," McColough recalls. "I went up to see one of the vice presidents...
...Anne-Marie and their two children; he pays about $500 a month for it. In contrast to his Athens stable of flashy cars, he makes do with a blue Mercedes 280 S, which he uses for commuting to town. Up the road a few hundred yards, and overlooking the royal couple's home, are the more sumptuous quarters of Queen Mother Frederika and Princess Irene: a ten-bedroom mansion provided rent-free by Greek Millionaire Felix Mechoulam. Country life for the royal family has had its drawbacks. The dearth of servants is particularly perturbing. The royal court has been...
...King and Queen have failed to live up to their advance billing as swingers. After they turned down an invitation to the Colonna ball, one of the year's biggest social flings, party-givers shied away from sending invitations for fear of being rejected. While the royal ladies recently ordered 15 gowns from the famed salon of Princess Irene Galitzine, the King has yet to appear in Rome in formal dress. Most of the royal family's social activity has been limited to the King's first love-sports events. Last week he escorted the Queen...