Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penny-alining and drink. In Table Number Seven Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress Leighton is an angular, sniffiy spinster who loves the fraud whom her dragon of a mother exposes and tries to expel...
Born. To Feiho Ikeda, 26, crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, which was dusted with radioactive fallout (1954) after a U.S. H-bomb test in the Marshall Islands, and his wife Setsuko Ikeda, 23: a son, described as healthy and normal, the first child born to any of the 22 survivors (one crewman died). Weight...
Call Me Mister. What gives Bhutan real distinction is the fact that it is a country without an army-at the moment. The head of the government is youthful (27) Druk Gyalpo Jigme Wangchuk, whose name means Dragon King. Up to six months ago he ruled Bhutan (pop. 300,000) with the aid of a council of eight, 125 civil servants and a handful of palace guards. Among the Dragon King's closest advisers is bespectacled, English-speaking Jigme Dorji, 37, one of the delegation visiting Nepal. Although he is the King's brother...
...Canadian agreement that occupied Japan was persuaded to sign. And in the vast mid-Pacific tuna and bonito grounds, the U.S. has posted a 421,500-sq.-mi. nuclear testing area, which jittery Japanese fishermen have given a wide berth since radioactive ash fell on the Fortunate Dragon...
...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 and bureaucrats in fancy uniforms and a dozen official elephants...