Word: stockton
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...remain just plain "Mr." But on his 90th birthday Harold Macmillan finally gave in to the repeated entreaties of Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and three weeks later, on Feb. 29, 1984, he was introduced into the House of Lords. He chose the title Earl of Stockton, after the working-class district in northern England that he had once represented as a Conservative Member of Parliament. Last week the Great Commoner, as he liked to be known to the end, died after a brief illness, at the age of 92. His death symbolized the passing...
...Stockton (Calif.) Unified School District, Computer Educator Jim Greco has hired women computer teachers, screened software for gender bias and put out the word that computers are no longer strictly boys' toys. Says Greco: "We're telling girls that they don't have to be geeks or nerds to like computers...
...Morris, 31, a newspaper graphics editor in Stockton, Calif., hooked up his new television set last November and settled into a chair to watch Miami Vice. During a tense scene set in the Everglades, Morris heard what sounded like an intruder in the house. He turned around quickly, only to discover that the rustling noise was coming from a speaker behind him. That marked the beginning of Morris' conversion to stereo TV. "Television elsewhere," he says, "seems onedimensional and hollow...
...David Stockton, health service director at UMass-Boston, says it would not be prudent to develop and put into effect specific policies. At the eastern end of Cambridge, MIT spokesmen say the university deals with outbreaks of AIDS on an ad hoc basis...
...Downing Street has been the official home to British Prime Ministers since 1735. On the occasion of No. 10's 250th anniversary, the present occupant, Margaret Thatcher, 60, was hostess to her Queen, whom she welcomed with a deep curtsy, and to her five living predecessors: Lord Stockton, formerly Harold Macmillan, 91; Lord Home, ne Alec Douglas-Home, 82; Lord Wilson, once just Harold, 69; Edward Heath, 69; and James Callaghan, 73. After dinner, Queen Elizabeth, 59, joked that it was only the third time in 34 years she had been invited to No. 10. Said Her Majesty...