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Because of construction strikes last summer and problems with the project's design. Harvard's basketball teams--which will be the building's chief tenants--could not move into Briggs Cage as planned last November. Instead, they spent their 51st year in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...family tradition. Of note were two daughters of the first Earl Spencer. Georgiana, the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire but better known as the Duchess of Dimples, achieved unwedded bliss with a Prince of Wales, the eventual George IV. Her comely sister Henrietta boasted in her diary: "In my 51st year I am courted, follow'd, flatter'd and made love to, en toutes les formes, by four men." Not all the Spencers were so sportive. George, brother of the third Earl Spencer, converted to Roman Catholicism and, as Father Ignatius of the Passionist Order, had a reputation...
...From 51st to 5th in the Heinz variety list, Klaussen keeps on moving up all the time...
Hold those American flags. Get out your needle, Betsy Ross. A 51st state may be in the making. Residents of the "last colony," the District of Columbia, will go to the polls tomorrow to vote on an initiative which would begin the process of making Washington, D.C., a state...
Africa's 51st independent state was born at a midnight ceremony that was almost like a love-in. Representatives of 96 nations, headed by Britain's Prince Charles, were among the 40,000 spectators* who jammed a football stadium in Salisbury (soon to be renamed Harare, after a famed tribal chief), as the Union Jack was lowered for the last time in what had been Rhodesia. In its place rose the multistriped banner of Zimbabwe. To honor the historic occasion, there were tribal dances and a parade that seemed to symbolize the peaceful end to seven years...