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Crossman's lèse-majesté evoked a swift and stormy-but divided-response. The Daily Mirror polled its readers, then announced that they had given "a resounding 'no' to the Queen's pay claim." From Manchester a reader wrote: "If we can't afford free milk for our kiddies, we can't afford any increase to a very wealthy family." But Conservative M.P. Sir Stephen McAdden introduced a motion in the Commons deploring the New Statesman article. The Times editorially tut-tutted Grossman's "gratuitously offensive manner." The difficulty is that...
...this week, Brit Chance obviously has enough to spare. Indeed, some old salts find him downright arrogant. Defeating Valiant was one thing, they say, but criticizing the boat's designer. Olin Stephens, 62, the man who practically invented the 12-meter sloop, is akin to lèse-majesté. But Chance isn't listening; he is too busy explaining why Stephens, after designing three of the last four Cup winners, was all but swamped by the new Intrepid. "Olin works very slowly," says Chance. "He gets in trouble with some aspects of his tank tests and ends...
...relentless march to war that ranked with those of Vincent Sheean and William Shirer. In 1936 Gunther produced the first of his fast-paced, infinitely detailed books, Inside Europe. ("I wrote, among other things, that the Führer was nil sexually" -a bit of lèse-majesté that would have marked him for elimination if he had ever fallen into Gestapo hands); it was an instant success, and over the years was followed by "Insides" on Asia, Latin America, the U.S., Africa and Russia. Some critics scoffed at him us "the Book-of-the-Month-Club Marco...
...Cadillac in which he was being chauffeured around the South Side. The car didn't have any license plates, and it was cruising slowly through a high-theft district-which attracted the cops' attention. Cassius-Muhammed Ali thought it was a clear case of lèse majesté, pointing to his Black Muslim lapel pin and yelling: "You can't arrest me! I represent another government-the Negro government. I'm a $15 million-a-year man, and you're nothing but a policeman. Lay a hand on me and I'll slap...
...Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before the royal train arrived, and the Abendzeitung hung out a banner headline: GRÜSS GOTT, MAJESTÄT (God's blessing, Your Majesty...