Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Riviera, followed by flowers and apologies from Shepheard's. the Egyptian tourist office and the Saudis. Abdullah haltingly explained his mistake: "I thought she was a djinni. I thought she must have hidden my master somewhere. I was panicky." And from the heart he added: "The King would chop my neck if my master was injured...
...Blame? Jordan's airport control tower at Amman had relayed the King's flight plan-from Amman to Beirut via Syria-as required by the international aviation regulations. But had anyone also obtained the overflight clearance through diplomatic channels required before the King's plane could cross a foreign border? There was an embarrassing silence in Amman. Someone thought the flight had been cleared through U.N. Representative Pier Spinelli. In a prompt denial, Spinelli snapped: "What do you think we are, a travel bureau?" The chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, Lieut. Colonel Ibrahim Othman...
...week's end Jordan was still lustily celebrating the King's deliverance, as well as his 23rd birthday. Whatever the unpopularity of his regime, the festivities proved that he was personally popular, and admired more than ever now for having shown the quality of luck. Had he been killed over Syria, however, Jordan might now be plunged into revolution, and the Middle East into war. This knowledge kept everyone from laughing too hard at the great snafu...
...stirring are Tintin's wholesome feats -fighting saboteurs, thwarting jewelry thieves, foiling dope smugglers-that both King Baudouin and French Novelist Francoise (A Certain Smile) Sagan are listed as fans. Tintin has made a millionaire of Herge (real name: Georges Remi), 51, who was a schoolboy when he started to draw Tintin's precursor as a boy spy during the German occupation of World...
Died. Tyrone Power, cinemactor, 44; of a heart attack suffered on the set of United Artists' Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile...