Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of the Reina del Pacifico and her grounding off Bermuda: in referring to certain passengers' proceeding by alternative .routes to the United Kingdom, you stated [July 22] that the third-class passengers who asked for air passages were told that they could go ahead-at their own expense. This, we would mention, is a gross inaccuracy, as all passengers, first, cabin and third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers...
...Bangkok last week, there was a good chance that this kind of appeal might fall on receptive ears. In Thailand, as in the neighboring kingdom of Cambodia and to a lesser extent even in Diem's own homeland of South Viet Nam, neutralism and anti-Americanism have shown a marked and steady increase during the past 18 months. Bangkok diplomats just smiled when Thai Premier Pibulsonggram, one of the shrewdest politicians in Southeast Asia, observed blandly of Diem's visit: "Politics won't be discussed. This is a state visit." The fact is that, though Pibulsonggram...
...long as republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is "His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco...
...newsreel cameras whirred, he slapped the young peer in the face. "It didn't hurt me a bit," said 33-year-old John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, as his assailant was led away, but throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom there were those, particularly among his peers, who felt Altrincham had got off a lot too easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists. He was fined a quid...
...Marvin Levy, 25, had his latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily on the comic effects, e.g., King Solomon's staccato outbursts...