Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the gleaming Boulevard Pasteur the luxury shops were empty, and the innumerable stalls of the city's moneychangers were closed in protest. Unexpectedly Morocco's King Mohammed V had issued a dahir (royal decree) revoking the charter he had granted Tangier in 1957 after his government took over the international free city from its eight-nation administration. At the time, the King had promised that the "free market in foreign exchange"-the source of all Tangier's material blessings-would go on as before. Now, it seemed, Tangier was scheduled to become, economically as well...
...behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out. Let moviemakers find sinister backdrops elsewhere...
...London auctioneer this week will hawk some love letters written by England's King George IV, most of them quilled to Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a widow six years his senior, who became his morganatic wife. Aside from their slushiness, the romantic epistles are historically interesting in graphically demonstrating the young prince's fickle ways. A few of the letters are addressed to "my own, own, own Isabella," a lady named Pigot, who happened to be Widow Fitz-herbert's companion. Where the salutation is hazy, it is impossible to know which woman young George was wooing...
Hedreen and McCall also may not play the entire contest. If Hedreen defects, Ekpebu may play center, or Keith Lowe may come in. Pete Savage, Bill Driver, and Bill King are all excellent substitutes, but none can replace McCall, whom Munro calls "the best halfback I know...
...Yardling offense stalled during the entire first half, failing to make a first down. Its defense permitted backs Bill King and Ernest Torres to make several substantial gains...