Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princess by her blood and by her beauty," cooed Lisbon's largest daily, O Século (circ. 110,000). "and she reflects tenderness and joy." Not since Britain's Queen Elizabeth graced the country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit...
Preparing for family summer travel, Britain's royal family sets a royal standard. Last week, on the eve of the farthest-ranging tour of Canada (44 days, 100 cities and towns, 15,000 miles) ever undertaken by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip read plentifully about the personalities and places they will visit. The baggage was mostly packed and at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia, and all that was left was to kiss the children goodbye. As part of a last weekend at home, Elizabeth rode out on her horse Imp to salute the Household Guards...
...immediate purpose of the Queen's visit is to inaugurate, with President Eisenhower in Montreal next week, the St. Lawrence Seaway.* Beyond that, the tour arrangers' purpose was to let Elizabeth see "something of the life of the average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport...
Down from the wall of Singapore's town hall came the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Next day, shirtsleeved and Next day, shirtsleeved and tieless, Lee Kuan Yew, chief of the left-of-center People's Action Party that had just captured 43 of 51 Assembly seats, took the oath of allegiance as the Queen's first Prime Minister of the autonomous State of Singapore...
Married. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 55, son of Physicist Albert Einstein, professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California; and Elizabeth Roboz, 56, research biochemist at Stanford University Medical School; he for the second time, she for the first; in Berkeley, Calif...