Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river-bottom lands will bring to the new Federation, it will have advantages of common frontiers and racial ties that Nasser's union conspicuously lacks. But Iraq is not keen to share its wealth with barren Jordan, and the Federation has been slow getting started. Iraq's King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which has plenty of farm land to reclaim, will be able...
Died. James Drummond Dole, 80, Boston-born, Harvard-educated "Pineapple King," founder in 1901 of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., which made big business of the islands' exportation of the fruit, now has annual sales of more than $80 million, leads the $117 million industry in Hawaii; of a heart attack; in Honolulu...
Wright found his site the Wright way. Circling in over Baghdad by airplane, he spotted a long narrow island in the middle of the Tigris. He discovered that it was royal property, went straight to King Feisal II. Recounts Wright: "The young king took me by the arm, smiled and said, 'It is yours.' " Unimpressed by its popular name, Pig Island, Wright promptly rechristened it Edena (for the Garden of Eden). He soon noted an unancient problem: newly prosperous Baghdad is rapidly filling up with automobiles. His solution is in the earthen ziggurats that Harun al-Rashid used...
...letters, like the V sign of World War II. The great risorgimento that threw out the alien rulers and made the Italians a nation used Verdi as its symbolic pun-a tribute to Italy's greatest composer and a proud abbreviation for the name and title of its King, "Vittorio Emanuele, Re è d'Italia...
John deKiewiet tied for second in the high jump with Bill Fay of Army, both with 6-2 efforts. Cornell star John King, the heavy favorite, won the event easily with a record jump...