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Elizabeth never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. Every August she repaired to her home at the Castle of Mey on the coast of northern Scotland. There she loved to listen to her collection of bagpipe records, to don waders and go fishing for salmon with Prince Charles or simply to tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELIZABETH, QUEEN CONSORT, 1900-2002: A Mum for All Seasons: | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...bring an end to Elizabeth's challenges. Her husband fell ill in 1947 and five years later died of lung cancer at 56. As the King's young widow, she found solace in her beloved Scotland, where she purchased the Castle of Mey, which became a favorite retreat. The new role she chose for herself was to help her daughter, then just 25, shoulder the burdens attendant upon a queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ma'am For All Seasons | 3/31/2002 | See Source »

Elizabeth, the Queen Mum, never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. She spent each August at the Castle of Mey, listening to her bagpipe records and fishing for salmon with Prince Charles. Sometimes she would simply tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals. Once, it is said, she noticed a farmhand struggling to herd his lambs into a pen. Instantly she clambered over a stone wall to help out. It seemed, she later said, the neighborly thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ma'am For All Seasons | 3/31/2002 | See Source »

...months of battling a low blood-platelet count and a recent bout of the flu, he finished eighth in the 500 and 18th in the 1,000. That race went to the Soviet Union's Nikolai Guliaev in 1:13.03. The silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday the U.S. medal drought ended when Eric Flaim, who placed fourth in both the 500 and the 1,000, took second in the 1,500-meter event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Fall and Rise of Dan Jansen | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Computers are teaching economics to a group of summer school students. The economics department has developed a four hour course that mey be the fore-runner of longer courses to be offered as supplementary work next year in Economics...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Wohlgethan, | Title: Ec S-1 Students Study Economics With a Computer | 7/16/1968 | See Source »

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