Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Topkapi Museum was originally a palace built in the 1470s for the retinue of Mohammed the Conqueror. As the empire grew, so did the retinue, until under Suleiman, it numbered more than 5,000. Attached to the imperial household, working in tiny studios scattered through the rambling palace grounds...
Virtually every one of its models is a sales disappointment to Chrysler-a fact that Chairman Lester Lum Colbert blames chiefly on bad publicity resulting from stockholder dissension and the conflict-of-interest scandals (TIME. July 11 et seq.). Once-mighty Plymouth has skidded from 4.9% to 3.3% of the...
At midday, Nikita Khrushchev will be Kennedy's luncheon guest, and the afternoon talk between the two leaders of East and West is expected to break up by 6 p.m. to allow them time to dress for the gala state dinner to be held in the imperial grandeur of...
As the Viennese awaited their guests last week, they took a modest pride in the K. und K. emblems fastened to many of the city's landmarks. They seemed an appropriate gesture, even though the emblems stand not for Kennedy and Khrushchev but for Kaiserliche and Königliche...
Peter the Great. Father of the Fatherland and Emperor of All Russia, spent most of his reign (1682-1725) trying to imitate the culture of the West, but he also kept a cold eye on the East. In Siberia great bands of plunderers were digging up the tombs of a...