Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costumes, traditionally Early Elizabethan, became instead Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...
...YEMEN was ruled by leftist, Nasser-leaning Crown Prince Mohammed al Badr when the Russians first moved in to build a $15 million Red Sea port at Hodeida in the feudal land. When Al Badr turned conservative in 1962 under Republican attack, the Soviets reversed themselves to back the opposition headed by Abdullah Sallal, built him an airport and 150 low-cost houses, promised $72 million more in various projects. None have even been begun, since Moscow is plainly worried that it may have switched to the wrong horse in midstream. All told, Moscow has offered $142 million...
...with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis XIII knew art lent dignity to the Crown. His style was spreading, iron hand in velvet glove with nationalism, while France pioneered the idea of the modern, absolute state. Something of this marriage of vigor and elegance remain the style's touchstone to this day and the underlying reason for its appeal...
...Lost Crown. Beirut's 84 banks have deposits totaling some $1.2 billion, roughly 80% of it in foreign money. In recent weeks, about $150 million has flowed into Lebanon, considerably more than normal. From this, the money watchers form a picture of the current situation in the Middle East area...
...SAUDI ARABIA sent an estimated $55 million flowing to Beirut, meaning that ex-King Saud has finally given up hope of regaining his throne from his half brother King Feisal. Were Saud determined to fight for his crown, he would instead be converting some of his considerable foreign assets into Saudi Arabian rials to ship home and use in bribing Bedouin sheiks to revolt against Feisal. Meanwhile, money is beginning to flow back into Saudi Arabia, too, from rich Saudis convinced Feisal means business and is in power for good...