Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnesota miracle was indeed a devastating blow to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor leadership. Before the primary, the Minnesota organization was considered the brightest jewel in the new Democratic crown. But Humphrey and Freeman had committed themselves fully to Stevenson, and the defeat left their machine in the ditch...
...their homes. At week's end, while British police were still searching for Neophytos Sophocleous, Sir John Harding discharged his remaining twelve Greek Cypriot servants (many of them with years of faithful service in Government House). The act was symbolic of the widening separation between Britain and her crown colony...
...Shifting Crown. The new Sihanouk role was that of kingmaker. In a ceremony of dazzling Oriental splendor last week he crowned his own father King of Cambodia. Long Sihanouk's close adviser, elderly (60), diabetic Suramarit and his statuesque wife Kossaman are members of the Khmer dynasty which goes back before recorded history, but neither was in the direct line of royal descent in 1941 when the French bent the legitimacy to make young Sihanouk King. Sihanouk, who deeply respects his parents, saw that the coronation got the full Oriental treatment, with dragon dancers, marching mandarins, hundreds of warriors...
Sihanouk himself performed the ceremony, placing the golden crown on his father's head, while 62 Buddhist monks in bright saffron robes chanted ancient prayers, and a high priest placed a fig leaf behind Suramarit's ear, symbol of long life and wisdom. A few minutes earlier Sihanouk had himself made Premier again, and delivered a little speech accusing the U.S. of wishing to take over and enlarge the Cambodian army. Said a Frenchman, amused by the U.S. predicament, "When he was King, we used to say le Roi est fou [the King is mad]." Last week...
...SECRETS OF CAROLINE CniRiE (309 pp.)-Cecil Saint-Laurent-Crown...