Word: kinged
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Defacing a public monument is a crime in France; the idea is worth borrowing and extending to cover such assaults as the Disney scheme to turn California's Mineral King mountain fastness into a tourist development, or the perennial proposal to build a highway through the Grand Canyon. Anyone approaching the national battlefield military park at Gettysburg runs a gauntlet of gaudy billboards, and now Tom Ottenstein, a developer from Silver Spring, Md., is going ahead with plans to build a 300-ft. sightseeing tower on an acre of private land not far from the Gettysburg National Cemetery...
...settled into a ravenous chant of "Franco! Franco! Franco! Franco!" did the Caudillo step onto the balcony. Dressed in a heavy gray overcoat, and looking all of his 78 years, he could hardly have found his reception disappointing. When the crowd saw Prince Juan Carlos, Spain's future king, at Franco's side, they shouted "Franco solo! Franco solo!" Paling visibly, the young prince quickly stepped back. "Spaniards!" croaked Francisco Franco in his high voice. "Thank you for this explosion of faith and enthusiasm, seconded by the people who believe in the destiny of the motherland...
...record this season with 1,040 yds. gained. Ranked as one of the best of a long line of classic Buckeye fullbacks, he is also an effective receiver on swing patterns and has great breakaway speed. In fact, he is also used on some kickoff returns. Worster is nicknamed King Kong, and the pros understand why: "He runs like a four-hundred-pound gorilla-crooked but with power." Working out of Texas' wish-bone-T attack, he is a punishing blocker who cracks into the line just as hard on a fake hand-off as when he is carrying...
...Minnie Pearl's Chicken System. So did computer software firms and rickety conglomerates. Flamboyant, fast-talking entrepreneurs toppled like dominoes. Among them was Bernard Cornfeld, the expatriate supersalesman who had built Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual fund organization selling shares to foreigners. Denver's John King, whose King Resources sold interests in oil wells and other holes in the ground, tried to come to Cornfeld's rescue with a loan. Instead, King himself was caught in a money bind and ousted by his board. Keith Barish, 26, a financial whiz who had made Nassau...
...they have been traced back 4,000 years to the Egyptians. They appear in the culture of the Polynesians, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Mayas and the Incas. King George V, Czar Nicholas II and King Frederik IX of Denmark wore them. For years they have adorned the arms and chests of sailors, roustabouts and construction workers. Now, after a decade or two of decline, tattoos are enjoying a renaissance. They have become the vogue of the counterculture...