Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain, Cowes Week is to yachtsmen what Ascot is to the horsy set. Last week hundreds of sleek racing craft, white and scarlet sails shining in the sun, gathered on the Medina estuary at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for one of Britain's biggest regattas since King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown...
...three-judge Appeals Court did not find itself guffawing at the jest. Last week Federal Judge Harold R. Medina ruled for the court: "This is a curious and unprofitable sort of jesting, as others may not view the humor in the same light . . . These explanations are wholly without merit or substance." The court unanimously upheld the $175,001 judgment against Pegler and his Hearst employers, who must pay the bill under terms of Pegler's contract. It is one of the biggest libel awards ever given by a U.S. court...
Reasonably dispassionate guessers figure the royal household plus retainers and courtiers in the neighborhood of 10,000 persons. Whenever the King's own household makes one of its periodic moves from Riyadh to Jeddah or Medina, its central figures are airlifted by the Saudi Arabian government airline, which owns 27 aircraft. A royal move means not only that all scheduled operations are canceled but also that every available aircraft...
...Black Knight (Warwick; Columbia), starring Alan Ladd and Patricia Medina, and photographed in Technicolor, is reviewed by TIME'S Camelot correspondent...
Howe considered Judge Harold A. Medina of New York, who presided at the lengthy Communist trials two years ago and who has been mentioned as a successor to Jackson, "a dreadful choice." Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, agreed. "I would certainly be disappointed if Medina was selected...