Word: three
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight-speed-gear bicycle. Once, when he flew back from a U.S. trip, his wife met him at London Airport. To make up for the exercise he had missed in America, they tramped the 15 miles home. Their fine Georgian mansion in Belgravia has a two-way frontdoor microphone, three dining rooms, and a $7,000 kitchen where Marples cooks midnight snacks for fellow Ministers ("After all, cooking's no art-merely applying heat to food...
When she arrived at the Hall of Mirrors, the Shah, resplendent in his commander in chief's uniform, had already passed through the main archway seven times, repeating, "Allah be praised." Three times the black-turbaned Imam of Teheran asked Farah the question, "Are you prepared to marry the Shahanshah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi?" Only the third time was Farah supposed to answer "Yes," lest she appear too eager. When the answer was given, the Queen Mother placed a diamond necklace around Farah's neck, and the Minister of Court brought the couple two gold rings upon a golden...
...Three-Bedroom Market. The new way of life has changed the face of Canada. Just after World War II, Salesman John Witherspoon bought a new house on the southern edge of Calgary, Alta. (population growth: from 104,000 in 1948 to 225,000 now). Today, he travels 50 blocks south to see his children, who live on the northern edge of a new subdivision. In metropolitan Toronto, which completed Canada's first subway in 1954, European immigration has pushed population from 1.100,000 to 1.600,000 in ten years. In Vancouver...
...Author Vance Packard saw it in his bestselling The Status Seekers (TIME, June 8), most Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to sentimentalize their forebears by living in Early American, white clapboard houses. On Christmas Eve, Homeowner Packard took his ease with his wife Virginia and their three children in their 45-year-old, 12-room, two-story, fairly Early American (Federalist), white clapboard house in New Canaan, Conn. At about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide...
...largely due to the unpredictable luck of an especially impressive batch of aspiring seniors. But it also seemed to reflect rising standards in the nation's applicant-besieged prestige colleges. Added evidence: although 18 colleges and universities shared this year's 32 scholarships, nearly half went to three Ivy League schools-Harvard (seven), Yale (five), Princeton (three). Aside from West Point and Williams, with two each, no other school had more than one winner...