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...mood was to revel, forgive and forget. In New Delhi more than a million Indians turned out to welcome respectfully and affectionately Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who came not as an empress inspecting her subjects but an honored visitor to a Commonwealth partner...
Eight times the park emptied and filled, bringing 174,000 Japanese into the royal presence-33,000 more than the year before. There were few of the old banzais but plenty of lively curiosity: "The Empress has lost weight," the women whispered. In auspicious 1961 (like 1901, when the Emperor was born, it is "the Year of the Ox"), monarchy was enjoying a resurgence of popularity in Japan...
...female cousin in a plot that toppled the playboy Emperor Lij Yasu. Ras Tafari pursued the fugitive Lij Yasu for five years, caught him, threw him in prison and kept him bound in golden chains for 14 years until he died in 1935. Though his cousin became the Empress Zauditu, Ras Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death in 1930, he mounted the throne (with typical flamboyance, he had five pet lions chained to the coronation dais). He took unto himself the name of Haile Selassie ("Power of the Trinity") and the titles...
...descendants took him at his word Prince Johann Adam bought a slew of Van Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close...
...Union of Seamen. The agreement provided for a reduction in weekly working hours from 48 to 44 and a minimum monthly pay rise of 50 shillings ($7). The rebels want a minimum pay rise of ?4 ($11.20) per month. The Queen Mary and the Canadian Pacific Co.'s Empress of Britain had to cancel their voyages, stranding 3,000 passengers-mostly U.S. tourists. In all, 80 British and Commonwealth ships had to cancel out, and ferry service across the Channel was halted. Three British ships were tied up in the Great Lakes. Cunard and Canadian Pacific set up emergency...