Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Australia appreciated the royal attention, its public-school administrators were somewhat miffed that the prince will attend such an upper-class school. "If the desire is for the prince to meet Australians, it is desirable for him to meet ordinary run-of-the-mill Australians," sniffed Douglas Broadfoot, an official of the New South Wales Teachers Federation. "Leaders of the government have been seriously remiss in not advising the Queen more accurately. Prince Charles might just as well stay in England and attend Eton as come to Australia and go to Geelong Grammar...
...upper-classmen, Rich Geisel and Pete Taylor, lend some experience to this bunch, though neither has proved himself in days gone by to be in the Dave Allen-Walt Hewlett class...
There will be a boatroom, and also a workshop for year-round maintenance of the boats on the bottom floor of the boathouse. The upper level will include a committee room, lockers, and an observation deck...
...Saltonstall's shot into the upper right corner was nullified by an offside call, but the referee's whistle provided defense for the barrage that followed...
...says former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish...