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...Club Bungalow. This week the duke and duchess attend the royal premiere in the U.S. of A King's Story, a documentary film of Edward's life culminating in the abdication crisis that shook an empire. It is a sentimental film, but it could hardly be otherwise, dealing as it does with the most romantic gesture of the 20th century. Next week the duke and his duchess will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their marriage, by every evidence still as devoted to each other as on the June day when they were wed in a friend...
Instead, I'll go with the 15-to-1 shot speed demon who finished second by a length, Barbs Delight. This colt, once bought for a meagre $2,500, fought with confirmed speed horses every step of the way to set the pace in the Derby, and he shook them off one after another. With half a mile to go, Barbs Delight passed the six furlong mark in 1 minute 10 4/5 seconds, which is faster than most horses, even good ones, manage to race when six furlongs is as far as they are going...
...Belvidere, the tornado sliced through five subdivisions and a supermarket, severely damaged a hospital, nicked an auto plant, and then headed toward the local high school, where students were just finishing the day. "A girl fell and somebody said, 'Watch her get blown away,' " recalled Gordon Shook, 18. "Then everybody got blown away." All told, 20 persons were killed in Belvidere, including several students who were on school buses that were crushed by the winds...
Soon afterward charges by General George Grivas, the Greek army commander on Cyprus, shook the Papandreou government like a row of fig trees in a thunderstorm. Grivas said that he had uncovered a plot on Cyprus in which a group of junior officers were plotting to overthrow the monarchy, purge the army of royalists, and install an army brand of socialism. Their code name, he said, was Aspida (shield), but his most damaging statement was that their leader was none other than Papandreou's son Andreas, onetime chairman of the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
...half years ago, when Simon moved into Wheeling, now the nation's tenth largest steel producer, he shook up the company by forcing five directors off the board, tossing out the chairman-president and hiring Morris away from Monsanto Chemical Co. to take charge. Amid that upheaval, Wheeling was unable to attract new seasoned steel executives. Though the company had borrowed $145 million from banks and insurance companies for plant modernization, it needed still more renovation to run efficiently. Over the past two years, Wheeling piled up losses of $12.4 million...