Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling hit me as soon as I turned the corner onto St. Peter Street, a pounding in the chest that was as familiar as the humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
...Canadians are arguing that Amway never stuck to that plan at all. Further, they claim that Amway fabricated bogus invoices to fake a low level of wholesale prices. After the customs people filed civil charges against the company, a criminal investigation leading to the indictments was begun by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
...court's account of Prime's life as a "mole" reads like a chapter from a John le Carré novel. According to a statement Prime gave police, he first offered his services to the Soviet Union in 1968, when he was stationed with the Royal Air Force in West Berlin. The Soviets equipped Prime with a miniature camera, a briefcase with a secret compartment, coding and decoding materials, money (a rather modest ?10,000 over the years) and the names of two contacts, Igor and Valya. After leaving the R.A.F., Prime returned to London later that year...
Imperial Air: Soviets like to joke that one thing working against Grigori Romanov is his surname, the same as Russia's former royal family. Romanov, 59, is not laughing. After a meteoric rise to candidate membership in the Politburo in 1973 and full membership three years later, he appears to be going nowhere. Still, as First Secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party he cannot be completely counted out for the party's top office...
...married in 1979, Romanov is said to have ordered the Hermitage Museum to hand over Catherine the Great's dinner service for the reception. Conservative Kremlin leaders could hardly have been pleased by subsequent press reports in the West that carousing guests smashed priceless pieces of the royal china. But if the aging post-Brezhnev leadership is in need of some new blood, Romanov could always be brought to Moscow to learn proper table manners...