Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victoria Cross. The same eagerness crushed Indian mutineers at Lucknow in the Sepoy Rebellion in 1858. It scattered Nazi Germany's Afrika Korps in the Battle of El Alamein during World War II and earned the regiment the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honor, for service during the Korean War. On its last assignment, helping to quell last year's Aden rebellion, the regiment displayed its typical bravado, marching to the strains of bagpipe music into the middle of the Arab-terrorized Crater district under the colorful command of Captain Colin ("Mad Mitch") Mitchell...
...cars. To further fill out his collection, Resnick also laid down $37,500 for a sleek, maroon 1966 Duesenberg four-door sedan (body by Ghia), $8,000 for a bright blue 1924 Amilcar three-place sport model CGS 3, and $15,500 for a 1916 Biddie Victoria touring car. Bidding right along with Resnick was the biggest old-car buff of all, William Harrah, owner of Nevada's Harrah's gambling clubs and the world's largest antique-auto collection (1,300 cars). Harrah kept his bids modest, acquired only four autos. "Exotic, glamorous cars are going...
...which she planned without informing her parents until the day ahead, she chose a mid-calf Victorian model. Julian, 27, heir to the title, hires himself out as a male model. "My hands are my specialty," he explains. "Being long and delicate, they're useful for cigarette ads." Victoria, 21, lives with her grandmother, and the two youngest, 16-year-old Alice and 14-year-old Francis, attend school, Alice in Manhattan...
...Chinese Gordon-that shredded all lingering pretensions of Victorian moral eminence. "The his torian of Literature," Strachey had once written, "is the historian of exploded reputations"; by diligently dynamiting the reputations of others, he built his own. In his last 14 years, he wrote two exceedingly successful biographies, Queen Victoria and Elizabeth and Essex. But it was Eminent Victorians that opened the way to the wholesale and often unfair assault on Victorianism that has preoccupied England and America for the past 50 years...
...open up what was then known as British East Africa. Starting with six buzzing, roaring De Havilland biplanes, E.A.A. pilots crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses on domestic flights. Going intercontinental for keeps, it boldly spent $6,000,000, or double its assets, to buy two Comets...