Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly a young man shinnied up the sandstone column. Just below the royal Polish eagle that crowns the monument, he placed a camouflaged box containing a tape recorder. From its speaker emerged the voice of Zbigniew Bujak, 27, one of the union's most active underground leaders. Declared Bujak: "We will continue our struggle for freedom and the independence of our motherland." It was a pointed reminder that the people had not abandoned their demands for greater freedom, despite the recent liberation of some 1,200 detainees and a vague promise from Party Boss General Wojciech Jaruzelski that martial...
...hotel's twelve-room Royal Suite, where Jimmy Carter and a dozen Secret Service men spent two days last spring as guests of French industrialists, runs around $5,000 a night at the present favorable rate of exchange. It has a private rooftop garden, bulletproof windows, private telex machines, Reuters and Agence France-Presse news bulletins, an electronic device that guarantees the phones are not bugged, dining and conference chambers, and a bar at the entrance to each living room. The Thousand and One Nights Suite, a triplex with a chic little swimming pool, costs $1,455 a night...
...pillow-by-pillow, faucet-by-faucet basis, the suites are not as hugely expensive as they seem. A few small rooms rent for $145, just the thing for bodyguards. The Royal Suite has two living rooms, five bedrooms with at least ten closets, and seven bathrooms. Even so, some visitors find its 4,844 sq. ft. oppressively small. One sheik had to rent two other suites to accommodate his baggage...
...such a full and multi-faceted character in the longest role of his longest play, many have treated Hamlet as a real historical figure. The playwright Percy Mackaye (Harvard 1897) even went so far as to write a quartet of verse dramas to explain what had happened in the royal Danish household during the 30 years leading up to the events offered by Shakespeare...
...problems with the Royal Marines here before," says Cheek. "We lost five girls one year...