Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...22nd in descent from King Edward I's daughter Elizabeth* Moreover, a medieval lord of Harlech was a mutual ancestor of both Tony and Margaret. Exulted Tree Tracer Montague-Smith: "A thrilling discovery! The relationship between Princess Margaret and Mr. Armstrong-Jones really comes to this: they are twelfth cousins, twice removed...
...economic know-nothingness is not an insoluble problem. Nor is economics "too tough" for high-school minds, providing it is made "real and exciting." What is needed, says Funston, is more required courses and more and better teachers. As an example of what can be done, Funston cited the twelfth-grade teacher in New York's Nyack High School who collected 50? from each pupil to form an investment pool. Together the class conducted an enthusiastic search for the right company in which to invest their $18, finally bought one share of American Zinc (price last week: $15), avidly...
...Penny ran up against a lithe (5 ft. 5 in., 115 Ibs.), tousleheaded Canadian named Anne Heggtveit. Poised and perky at 21, Anne lost 12 Ibs. while training for the Olympics, decided to concentrate on the slalom, where agility counts more than weight. She contented herself with a respectable twelfth in both the downhill and giant slalom. But right from the start of the slalom, Anne put the pressure on Penny, darted through the first steep, 53-gate course in a blazing time of 54 sec. that put her first and left her U.S. rival dangling in seventh place...
Last week the season rose to a climax as Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient...
Notwithstanding his brash independence, Quesada ably fulfilled his jobs in the demanding years that followed. He was commanding general, Twelfth Fighter Command in Africa, deputy commander Northwest African Coastal Air Force, and before D-day took over the Ninth Fighter Command. On D-day plus one, Quesada landed his own P-38 fighter plane on the Normandy beach ("My first step was not on European soil-it was on a dead German...