Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reliably reported: a lovers' tiff. The British press's ardor for prickly Princess Anne is waning as her Nov. 14 marriage to Captain Mark Phillips approaches. Annoyed by the command that servicemen pass the hat for the young couple, newsmen were further rankled by Horsewoman Anne's gibe after she took a fall at the European equestrian championships in Kiev: "Sorry to disappoint but I'm not badly hurt." Not even the special wedding stamp is getting its licks. Cynics note that before the princess would put her best face on it, critical retouching was required...
With a plot devoid of suspense, an air of regality is of the essence. Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity. George Grizzard suggests a jaunty detached habit of command, but any show of passion is dissipated in petulance. All in all, one has the unsettling impression that a pickup cast of stewards and maids from the crew of the Queen Elizabeth II could have mimicked royalty more convincingly...
...shortages: price controls. Critics charge that by preventing companies from raising prices of finished products as high as the market will bear, the controls have also made it impossible for American industrialists to pay the high prices that such materials as copper, cotton, wool, lumber and chemicals now command on world markets. Inevitably, the goods are being carried off by foreign buyers, especially the Japanese. ("The Japanese have bought up every pound of wool in the world!" a New York buyer hyperbolically exclaims.) Says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "We have prices being suppressed...
Iraqi air and ground military forces joined the war against Israel yesterday, taking an active part in fighting on both fronts, according to the Iraqi military command. Morocco and five other Arab countries are also reported to have sent token forces...
...Aviv command called its targets in Syria and Egypt "military and strategic." It said attacking Israeli jets hit Egyptian air bases at Khusna and Abu Hammad, 27 miles from Cairo...