Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast tract of drowning land. Two hundred yards away a dozen monkeys clung to the rocky crown of a tiny island that was being swallowed up in the dappled waters. The monkeys' ribs showed through their shrunken skin, their liquid, pleading eyes turned desperately this way and that...
...Harvard Rifle Team upset a strong Princeton squad to capture the Ivy rifle crown in the League tournament Saturday at New Haven. The Crimson compiled an impressive score of 1403 points, as Yale took second with 1388. Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell finished third, fourth, and fifth respectively...
...Tokyo, a love match after all? Cruelly thwacking the charming legend, a spokesman for the imperial household told the astounded Diet that nothing so silly as affection had a part in the troth-pledging; plain, old-fashioned parental bride-picking had done the trick. "The engagement of the Crown Prince was not the result of unthinking love," said the spokesman, adding obscurely, "I have observed the Prince and was compelled to admire his mature and deliberate way of thinking, regarding his marriage...
...session for the Crimson, which will play Navy and Princeton tomorrow and Saturday. These contests will probably decide the Eastern Inter collegiate Championship, for Yale has lost to the Middies, 5 to 4, and a Crimson win at Annapolis would definitely make the varsity a favorite to take the crown...
Privately, many Moroccans wonder if the monarchy can survive Mohammed. His elder son, 29-year-old Moulay Hassan, is Crown Prince, although Moroccan kings traditionally have been chosen by a college of ulema. or religious judges. He is French-educated, intelligent, can exude kilowatts of charm. As commander in chief of the royal army fighting the rebels in the Rif (TIME, Dec. 22) and around Fez, he takes his job seriously, works hard. But Morocco's young nationalists do not hide their dislike for the prince and his way of life. Only a few weeks ago a Berlin businessman...