Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...golden laurel on his balding head. Ascending his throne-shaped in the form of a giant eagle, with a 13.6-ft. wingspan, 800 gilded feathers and a seat carved out of the bird's belly-Bokassa donned a flowing ermine and velvet cape with a 39-ft. train. The Emperor then took an oath to defend the constitution, which he suspended after seizing power in a 1966 coup. At the climactic moment, Bokassa, 56, crowned himself and placed a smaller coronet on the head of the youngest of his three wives, 28-year-old Empress Catherine. (Rumor...
...year-old firm of Guiselin, which embroidered Napoleon's uniforms, did up 13 outfits for Bokassa, including the 32-lb. coronation robe with its 785,000 pearls, 1,220,000 crystal beads and train. Total cost...
...without great height. He's big in every sense - bone structure, muscle structure. He's got great leg strength and back strength. He has fine agility and is light on his feet." Light enough, in fact, to boogie them second place in a national Soul Train dance contest during college...
...Train buffs may rush out to buy Rails of the World (David R. Godine; 406 pages; $75) only to find that its subject is not choochoos but birds-members of the family Rallidae, including rails, coots and gallinules. No matter. It is impossible to be disappointed by this handsome book. Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley has brought his ornithological expertise and years of patient watching to bear on these elusive creatures. The 41 color paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne are reproduced so sharply that light seems to glance off eyes and feathers. Ripley furnishes all the required taxonomy...
After Santa passed into the hereafter, The Santa Corporation's drive built speed. To feed its growing need for expertise, the company created a scholarship fund to train promising young elves in the ways of gift-making. Many a Ph.D. in Gift Wrap or Ribbon Tie owed his education to the corporation. These indebted techno-elves devised new gifts for the corporation to make to keep its volume of business high. They developed useless innovations that nobody needed but hordes wanted anyway. They came out with see-through lighters, scented candles, day-glo animal posters, holly-and-ivy neckties...