Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will then pick a temporary regent to reign until a king can finally be chosen. The king, in turn, will inaugurate a royal succession in which the first male heir will inherit the throne. If normal custom is followed, the first king will be Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 53, son of Spain's last king, who is now living at Estoril in Portugal and is spending his life preparing to become a constitutional monarch...
...herself of a portfolio that she had inherited unwillingly two weeks ago. It was the important Home Ministry, from which she had removed Gulzarilal Nanda for his failure to block the violent Hindu demonstrations against cow slaughter that recently erupted near Parliament. Now she passed the powerful post to Y. B. Chavan, 53, the former Defense Minister. In so doing, she also created a powerful potential rival for the future...
HERCULANEUM by Joseph Jay Deiss. 174 pages. Thomas Y. Crowell...
...scheme of her own. She intended to use Nanda's ouster as an opportunity to reshuffle the Cabinet, which she had inherited almost intact from Lai Bahadur Shastri and had so far been unable to alter. Her plan was to give the Home Ministry to able Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan and install other favorites in the finance and commerce slots...
With all that going on, chances are good that there is another Y. A. Tittle or Bart Starr somewhere down South this year. The pros already think they have spotted one: Florida's Steve Spurrier, one of the sharpest college passers in the U.S.-with 133 completions in 206 attempts for 1,530 yds. as of last week, although his Gators lost to Georgia 27-10. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Spurrier, a C student, is apparently ticketed to the National Football League's New York Giants, provided that they are willing to pay his price...