Word: crown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Linen was concerned with the founding of a new university at Pattani, in southern Thailand. Linen was visiting Thailand as guest of Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, and during his stay was honored by the King, who made him Dvitiyabhorn (Knight Commander) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown. Linen first met Thanat during TIME'S news tour of Asia last winter, when the Foreign Minister's vigor and his views of the U.S. role in Asia made a sharp impression on the U.S. business executives who were on the trip. Among Thanat's domestic responsibilities...
...Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall, a single glass-walled room, measuring 120 ft. by 220 ft. and spanned by four huge trusses. The structure simply encloses an envelope of space; the functions within can be changed by shifting movable partitions...
...prohibited the import of Rhodesian chrome. Then came a ban on cash-and-carry trade, which supplemented an earlier crackdown on credit deals. Finally, having presumably run out of trade barriers, Wilson decided to test his thesis that most of the Rhodesian civil service is loyal to the Crown, and will prove it if given the chance...
...would be Don Juan's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 27; Franco sent him through Spain's three military academies and gave him a Madrid palace after his wedding to Greek Princess Sophie. Trouble is, Juan Carlos will not cooperate. "I'll never, never accept the crown as long as my father is alive," he maintains, and there is every indication that he means it. In any case, he has proved unexciting in his few public appearances...
Columbia, defending national champion, has now won 26 consecutive matches. The Lions should have no trouble clinching their seventh straight Ivy League crown this year. Harvard is 6-2 for the season, but 0-1 in Ivy competition...