Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind-the-scenes leader of Senate Republicans. As usual he refused (for health reasons, he again explained) to consider a move from his powerful position on the Appropriations Committee to take on the minority leader title. He preferred instead to back Illinois' Everett Dirksen for the job. To crown Dirksen, Bridges had first to put down a stubborn revolt of Vermont's George Aiken and six other Senate liberals (TIME. Jan. 12) lined up behind Kentucky's courtly John Sherman Cooper...
Almost everywhere else, Britain is letting its crown colonies move toward self-government, even independence, more quickly than it often thinks wise. But Britain turned back the clock last week on the island of Malta, site of the Royal Navy's main base in the Mediterranean. Unable to satisfy the voracious demands of the island's unpredictable, Oxford-educated former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (who last year wanted to incorporate Malta into Britain itself, but now talks about making it a neutral port guaranteed by the U.N. Security Council), and unwilling to grant independence to the rock-bound...
...real power in the palace is 35-year-old Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Palden Thondup Namgyal, who was educated in India, and then spent several years in a Buddhist lamasery as a reincarnation of his uncle (who had been an abbot). The handsome young prince wheels over the country's 57 miles of navigable roads in a pink Mercedes and has imported a fleet of Mercedes trucks for the government...
...dewan worries about Sikkimese students who copy "some cute design" from an Indian magazine. "We must watch very carefully," he warns. Both he and the crown prince are aware of ushering in the 20th century too rapidly. When Gangtok's first movie house opened a few years back, Sikkim's young people took one look and promptly went out and engaged in drunken brawls and prostitution. The movie was closed down...
...salutes, hands-up salutes, and to cry, "Africa! Africa! Africa!" One gentleman from little Dahomey delivered a speech while waving three placards at once. Regrettably, one of the most colorful heads of delegation was not heard. He went by the name of Cissé Zakaria, and called himself Crown Prince of Mauretania and General of the Liberation Army, but an alert Accra hotel clerk quickly tagged him as the deadbeat who had run up a ?79 bill on previous visits to Accra, and he was advised to leave town by the earliest possible plane...