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...seaport of Derry was handed over to the city of London and renamed Londonderry. Yet 30 years later the Ulster Irish were still strong enough to launch another uprising, under Owen Roe O'Neill. It grew so serious that it finally required the fire-and-sword scourging of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: 1608 and All That | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Foreigners are making the most of Napoleon too. The Austrians produce huge red, green and gold candles in the form of the imperial eagle. The Spanish are forging Napoleon's "battle sword" at Toledo-for sale in France, since he was never very popular in Spain. The British fabricate "Napoleon soap," with a color reproduction inside of David's famous painting of the Emperor on a horse. The soap shrinks, of course, but the portrait of Napoleon stays. "Imagine being able to wash your hands with Napoleon," exults Xavier Moreschi, the chief Corsican commercializer of the bicentennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Bad Case of Napoleonomania | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...SWORD LINE cuts a swath through these...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: The Wellesley Kid | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...braided uniform of a field marshal. Prince Charles, who waited in the Chamberlain tower until formally summoned by his mother, wore the No. 1 blues of the New Royal Regiment of Wales, of which he is colonel-in-chief. As he received the instruments of his office -silver-handled sword, amethyst ring, ermine-topped mantle and contemporary gold coronet-mother and son looked into each other's eyes. When it was over, and Charles had delivered his speech, Philip caught his son's eye, and the prince broke into a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Popular Young Lad | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Handicappers for the Summer News picked three big winners in Thursday's races at Suffolk Downs; MR. SURVEY in the first, SWORD LINE SURREY in the first, SWORD LINE in the second, and BOUNDING IMAGE in the third. If you had bet $2.00 on every horse that we picked to win you would have cashed $21.30 worth of winning tickets for a $3.30 profit. Summer News handicappers have yet to have a losing day. So here we go again! Following are today's winners at Rockingham listed in their order of finish...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Snooze Picks Winners At Rockingham Park | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

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