Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyday humble-bumble of police courts," worked briefly for an encyclopedia but never got much beyond "Fleas, Performing." He believes that writers of fiction and poetry often give a truer picture of this world than sociologists, historians, scientists and politicians. "After all," he says, "who thinks of Queen Victoria in terms of Gladstone or the warehouse full of bureaucratic bilge? No. We think in terms of Dickens, as today will be thought of in terms of Koestler, Auden, Mailer and Waugh...
...defend the colors? Not at all - to surrender. But he passes out first, just in time to be rescued still embracing the flag, and is shipped back to London as the sole hero of the campaign. For that he wins the Victoria Cross and a handshake from the Duke of Wellington...
...Sizzling action for a hot summer's night: Zulu (1964), the story of eight British officers (including Stanley Baker and Michael Caine), 97 men, one minister (Jack Hawkins) and the minister's daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) v. 4,000 assorted Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were earned in the original battle of Rorke's Drift...
...making their persuasive case for Ramapithecus as the first hominid, Simons and Pilbeam dispute a competing claim by the Kenyan anthropologist, Louis Leakey. Two years ago Leakey announced that 20 million-year-old fossils that he had discovered near Africa's Lake Victoria and dubbed Kenyapithecus africanus belonged to the earliest known manlike creature (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967). After applying their dental tests' to casts of Leakey's prehistoric fragments, the Yalemen decided that Kenyapithecus lacked the characteristics of early man. Though Leakey still insists that Kenyapithecus is a hominid, most other scientists now believe that...
...Mary Queen of Scots (1542-87), who passed the genetic disorder on to 16 generations of European aristocracy. Her son, James I of England, was affected, as are several living European aristocrats who cooperated in the study but asked that they not be identified. In a simliar fashion, Queen Victoria-whose father, the Duke of Kent, showed signs of porphyria-passed hemophilia on to generations of male European royalty...