Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Vodrey of Princeton, runner-up last year, and Doug Brew of Dartmouth will also contend for the individual crown, but their teams are not rated too highly, and only Penn, outside of the four top teams is conceded even a faint chance of capturing the championship...
...First prize ($2,000) went to France's Alfred Manessier, 44, for his 5-ft.-wide Crown of Thorns (opposite), a radiant liturgical painting in which a molten skull, mouth agape, glows hot beneath a blue-black thorn crown. Painter Manessier, who was reconverted to Roman Catholicism after service in World War II, began to change from figurative to nonfigurative painting in 1947, also branched out into stained glass and tapestry design. With increased recognition as one of France's foremost painters (TIME, Mar. 21) has come a good share of the world's top art awards...
...Nicosia airport, a British field marshal stepped off an R.A.F. Hastings transport, eyed the awaiting refreshments, turned to a cluster of local dignitaries and snapped, "Let's cut the cocktails and go into town." Sir John Harding had taken over as the new governor of Britain's crown colony of Cyprus...
...taking part in the campaign against Turkey, he was bounced from the army for joining a plot to restore the monarchy under George II, Constantine's son. But in 1935 he took a leading part in a coup d'état which got George II back his crown by means of a fake plebiscite. Said Papagos: "The only unethical act of my career." Years later he had to lecture one of George II's successors on the limitations of the royal prerogative: "Sir," complained haughty young Frederika, wife of King Paul, "you forget who the Queen...
...deal elevated Nasser to a role he has coveted for some time, cock of the walk with the Arab world. Saudi Arabia urged all the Arab governments to follow Nasser's example. Said Saudi Arabia's Premier-Crown Prince Feisal: "The purchase of arms means the purchase of steel, not the purchase of ideologies." Even in Lebanon, the Arab country most closely oriented toward the U.S., the Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution unanimously supporting Egypt. Though it will be some time before the arms deal has the desired effect, Nasser felt strong enough to shout his plans...