Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishermen rowing by the palace often stopped to listen to the music from the King's khen pipes. But five years ago sickness fell-first rheumatism and then a malignant tumor on the neck. Last August King Sisavang Vong finally turned his duties over to his eldest son, Crown Prince Savang Vatthana, 52. Last week 21 can non volleys thundered over Luangprabang, and the fires in the temples burned all night. At 74 the old King was dead...
...market players shy away from the options, consider them as risky as a crap game. But that is just not so, says jaunty, white-haired Herbert Filer, 65, head of Filer, Schmidt & Co., the nation's largest stock option dealer. This week, in Understanding Put and Call Options (Crown; $3), the first book on the business to be published in the U.S., Filer presents a case for using options to reduce stock market risks as well as for speculating...
Army, with 31 points, won the team title with virtually the same lineup that captured the crown a year ago. Dick Greene took first in the first time of 24:42. John Jones and Lynn Bender filled the fifth and sixth spots, followed by Howie Roberts in eighth and Gene Wilson in 11th...
...Bagnoli is not ready in time for the Yale game, he will miss one of the climatic encounters of the Eastern hockey season. Harvard-Yale contests are always exciting, and besides, the Ivy crown will probably be at stake. And, if all goes well, the Crimson will be defending an unbeaten record...
...Tangier (pop. 180,000) had never been "just one more city," no matter what the nationality of its masters. It was here that Atlas stood, and Hercules formed his great pillars. Trade flourished under Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, Visigoth and Byzantine alike. The city was "the brightest jewel" in the crown of England's Charles II. It was coveted by the Portuguese, ruled by the Moors, shelled by the French, invaded by the Spanish-and fought over by just about everyone. When it was finally internationalized in 1923, it was the Mediterranean haven for money-changers and smugglers, bohemians...