Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Treetops one day 31 years ago that then Princess Elizabeth received the news her father King George VI had died and she had acceded to the British throne. As she hurried off for London, the new Queen vowed to come back some day to the legendary lodge in central Kenya. Elizabeth II, 57, fulfilled that promise last week by making the popular game-viewing spot part of a jubilant five-day state visit to Kenya. The Queen remembered her first visit well enough to note changes, commenting on the loss of trees and inspecting the ruins of the original lodge...
Bailyn's prominent role in shaping the Core is what appears to dominate in the minds of those who mention him as a possible candidate for dean. But even these Faculty members acknowledge that is number of factors could keep Bailyn from the throne...
Almost from the moment Bok announced Rosovsky's resignation, faculty insiders and observers have assumed that Sidney Verba '53 would be high-perhaps even first--on a list of possible successors to the throne...
Professors in the section say this display is intellectually healthy. "It's not just speaking from the throne," says Chayes...
...celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...