Word: buckingham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plushest project so far is Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Its 68 stories of bronze and glass encase 263 condominiums that cost from $600,000 to $10 million each. Among the buyers: Johnny Carson, Sophia Loren, Director Steven Spielberg. Footmen in Buckingham Palace-style uniforms open doors to a lobby that is really a six-story atrium with an 80-ft. waterfall. The Trumps, including their three children, preside over a three-story penthouse, an exception to his longstanding rule of not living where tenants...
...Over at Buckingham Palace, meanwhile, the reigning royal catch himself, Prince Andrew, was being entertained on his 24th birthday by the family of his latest lovely, Katie Rabett, 23. Andrew, who met the bonny Rabett at a Halloween party last year, is said to have received the nod of approval from the Queen, who was not at all amused by his earlier, well-publicized adventures with Starlet Koo Stark. For their part, Katie's parents (he is a well-established London gynecologist) seemed to have no objections. Their daughter, who has modeled and acted...
...considerably more momentous: the princess, 22, is pregnant again. The first Britons to cash in on the news were the bookmakers, who offered odds of 10 to 11 on a girl, even money on a boy and 50 to 1 against twins. In their first public appearance after the Buckingham Palace announcement, Diana joined Prince Charles in a visit to a Jaguar factory. Said Charles to an assembly-line worker: "Your production is going well." Replied the worker with a grin, "Your production line is going well...
...weekend before Christmas, and on the vast sales floors of Harrods, London's fashionable department store, thousands of customers roamed through acres of lavish displays. Suddenly, at 1:20 p.m. Saturday, a car parked outside exploded with a thunderous roar that could be heard all the way to Buckingham Palace, one mile away. As debris flew like shrapnel, black smoke soared into the air. Said Harry Aspey, a British reporter who was slightly hurt by the blast just as he was leaving the store: "It was as if the world had come to an end. Glass came raining down...
While interest in enlisted programs has increased since the invasion of Grenada and the recent deaths of U.S. Marines in a Lebanon bomb blast. Harvard interest in the officer programs has not changed. Buckingham said...