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DIED. LUCIEN LAURIN, 88, Hall of Fame trainer who saddled 36 stakes winners, including Secretariat, who won the 1973 Belmont by an unprecedented 31 lengths to win the Triple Crown; in Miami. DIED. VERA ATKINS, 92, British spymaster who inspired the James Bond character Miss Moneypenney; in Hastings, England. Born in Romania, Atkins recruited and trained nearly 500 secret agents to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, concocting elaborate identities for the spies. After the war, she tracked down the fates of 117 missing agents and brought their murderers to war-crimes trials...
...wheel of his black custom-crafted Carlsson Mercedes. Since becoming head of state a year ago, he explains as he steers into traffic through the huge gate in the palace's high, ocher-colored rampart, he has gone on living the regular life he tried to live as Crown Prince. "People are not shocked at all when they see me driving my own car," he says. "I have always driven myself. I can't imagine not doing it. I haven't changed anything, except I moved into a bigger office...
...King, Moroccans say, wears his heart on his sleeve. That may be what most distinguishes him from older Arab potentates hardened by careers spent battling colonialists and Israelis. Since his Crown Prince years, he has headed a foundation for helping the handicapped. These days his popularity soars with every visit to another city or town, where he alarms his bodyguards by working the excited throngs. While some Moroccans worry at his disregard for security, that openness has been an essential part of his more modern, approachable rule. "I feel the need to meet the people and see how they live...
...Japanese Emperor Hirohito and mother of reigning Emperor Akihito; at Tokyo's royal palace. She married Hirohito in 1924 and became Empress in 1926. Born a princess, Nagako reportedly had cool relations with daughter-in-law Michiko, the current Empress and the first commoner to marry a Japanese Crown Prince...
There are currently three conservation districts in Cambridge--in Mid- Cambridge, Half Crown and Avon Hill...