Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palace grounds, where unpaid volunteers tended the gardens. As her chauffeur-driven car passed through the tall gateway, guarded by policemen with gold chrysanthemums on their collars, Michiko was carried into the secluded "world within the moat" that will be hers next month on her marriage to Crown Prince Akihito, 25. Slim, curly-haired Michiko Shoda is the first commoner in 2,600 years to marry an heir to the imperial throne...
Since the New England championships were held simultaneously with the Yale meet, the Crimson sent only a makeshift lineup, composed of second-stringers and manager Gerry Kelly. Still, the varsity took fourth place in the tournament, and Roberts came away with the New England epee crown after a fence-off with Brandeis' Mark Friedman...
...stinging defeat for Adenauer, the worst he had received in ten years of strong-willed party rule. West Germany had at last found a crown prince to succeed Adenauer when the day comes. Ludwig Erhard emerged unquestionably as the most likely Christian-Democratic candidate for the chancellery in 1961 if Adenauer himself at 85 does not want it, and possibly even if he does...
...Bolivia is the brightest jewel in the crown of the Trotskyite Fourth International, the "true," workers-of-the-world-unite Communists who oppose the Russian Reds. In 1956 elections, the Trotskyites drew 2,300 votes, .2% of the Bolivian total. The other major Trotskyite enclave: Ceylon...
...land equal to two city blocks is being cleared. A restaurant and steam-heated offices have been set up for U.S. officials and engineers who are converging on the site. On its way from Texas to Russia this week is a huge, 200-ft. gold-anodized geodesic dome to crown the exhibition's central building, a 30,000-sq.ft hall that will accommodate 5,000 visitors an hour. Russian name for the U.S. exhibition: Ugolok Ameriki, or "A Corner of America...