Word: wed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. says he will wed singer Linda Ronstadt in September Three days later, the entire state breaks away from the rest of the country and sinks into the Pacific Ocean. The Los Angeles Dodgers immediately announce the signing of submarine pitcher Ted Abernathy...
...Greek myth? Absolutely, said acquaintances of the prospective bride. Not at all, insisted the bridegroom's mother. At issue: persistent rumors that Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 27, the twice-divorced daughter of the late Aristotle Onassis, will wed Sergei Kauzov, 37, a divorced former official of the Soviet ship-chartering agency Sovfracht, on Aug. 1, and settle down in Moscow. The couple are supposed to have met either in Moscow, where Christina negotiated the charter of her ships to carry American grain to the U.S.S.R., or in Paris, where Kauzov was sent on business. When the Soviet government...
MONACO is FOR LOVERS say the T shirts hawked on the boulevards of Monte Carlo. But this week the tiny principality on France's Mediterranean coast was strictly for the paparazzi. While Princess Caroline, 21, prepared to wed Philippe Junot, 38, in the chapel of the Grimaldi family palace, reporters from all over the world were feverishly plotting their assault on a ceremony that the parents of the bride had vowed to keep private. The National Enquirer, the Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship. There...
Nothing deterred him. Three times Jarvis tried and failed to get property taxes rolled back. Suddenly, in the past year, soaring property taxes, ever-rising state and federal taxes and the prospect of double-digit inflation combined to wed Jarvis' obsession to the public's anger. The old gadfly has become a kind of California folk hero, an unlikely St. George to voters who hope that he can deliver them from the tax dragon...
...life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter of a prominent Jordanian family. The third wedding took place when the second divorce...