Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand also had a bonfire last week when police raided 854 opium dens throughout the nation, sealed up unsold stocks and piled almost 9,000 opium pipes, many of ivory and rare mandarin wood, in front of Bangkok's Grand Palace. Drenched with gasoline and set afire, the blaze was watched by thousands until dawn. Boasted Thailand's boss. Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who has also closed down nightclubs, "massage parlors" and brothels: "From this day we can proudly claim that we are a civilized people. Gone will be those trying days when we were pilloried...
...drizzly day at Longchamp racetrack, a resplendent Aly Khan and his handsome son Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, were on hand to watch the running of the Grand Prix de Paris. Like any solicitous father, Aly unfurled his big topcoat to shield Karim from the rain. It was one of their few public appearances together since Karim became Aly's own spiritual ruler, helped dispel rumors that they have not hit it off well lately...
Rodin could not have done it better. The bowlegged old man brooded in the grand manner, one foot up on the top step of the dugout, an elbow on a knee, a hand held up to shade the faded blue eyes peering from a wrinkled mask of despair. "Something is wrong with this team." muttered Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, "and I gotta find out what it is.' As last week began, marking the season's halfway point, Casey's noble Yankees, perennial champions, were ignobly mired in fifth place, and baseball legend has it (none too accurately...
...Harvard varsity boats celebrated the Fourth of July by winning the championship of international rowing, the Henley regatta. The heavyweights won the coveted Grand Challenge Cup, rowing's greatest honor, while the lightweight crew successfully defended the Thames Challenge...
...star in an all-cotton fashion show and present two high-style cotton dresses to Thailand's Queen Sirikit flew the U.S.A.'s 1959 Maid of Cotton, pretty, blue-eyed, brunette Malinda Diggs Berry, 21-year-old Oklahoma State University coed. Like a debutante on a grand tour, Malinda arrived with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat...