Word: royals
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...controversy surrounding his work. A 59-year-old Scotch architect of imposing girth but unpretentious manner, he was little known in the U.S. when Harvard selected him in 1979 from among some 70 competitors for the Sackler job. Since then, he has won the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the international $100,000 Pritzker Prize and some of England's and West Germany's choicest commissions, including an addition to the Tate Gallery in London and a science center in the monumental heart of West Berlin. He is the subject of a lavish catalog with commentary...
Harvard officials hope speeches by President Reagan, a member of the British royal family, President Bok, and a "Spectacular" in the Stadium on the last night will highlight five days of celebration beginning on September...
University officials are also confident that a member of the British royal family will represent the "mother country" at the celebration, but plans are still uncertain, Stephenson said, adding that Harvard was hopeful that the representative would be a member of the Queen Elizabeth II's immediate family. He would not say which royal family member the University preferred to have attend...
Covering the ceilings and walls of the queen's tomb in the royal necropolis -- a honeycomb of chambers carved into the limestone mountains at Thebes -- the paintings have been sheltered from the fierce winds and scorching heat of the middle Nile Valley. Indeed, some of the bright-hued images are as vivid today as when they were first daubed onto the plastered interior of the tomb more than 3,000 years ago. But though the colors are still brilliant, the plaster underneath is deteriorating. Nearly a third of the paintings have already flaked off. The plaster behind others is loosening...
...gray and chilly morning last week, a Royal Air Force Lockheed L-1011 TriStar became the first wide-bodied passenger jet to land on the Falkland Islands, marking the start of regular air service from London. Then Britain's Prince Andrew officially opened the islands' still unfinished Mount Pleasant airport. Almost half the Falklands' 1,850 residents jostled for a view of the royal occasion; there was even a 10-ft.-long commemorative cake. But some of the reactions to the $345 million airport were not as sweet as the cake...