Word: monarchical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies her as a foreign monarch. And on the royal route down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue to Kwame Nkrumah Circle, past Kwame Nkrumah Cooperative College, scores of signs read "Long Live Osagyefo"; only a few say "God Save the Queen...
A.R.A.'s rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Another fast comer is Interstate Vending Co. of Chicago, which has bought 25 companies in the past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires...
...since reporters wore celluloid collars. The Baltimore Sun's front page has advocated LIGHT FOR ALL since 1840, 41 years before the city was electrified. Along with the Hearst emblem, an eagle roosting on a starred shield, the San Francisco Examiner clings loyally to the pet name-THE MONARCH OF THE DAILIES-bestowed on it by the Chief 74 years...
...named for Ralph Waldo, by simply renting a gabled Victorian mansion in Pacific Grove, a dry town founded by Methodists that seems at times as whimsical in its way as Emerson. For example, the municipal code forbids "any person to molest or interfere with the peaceful occupancy of the monarch butterflies on their annual visit to the city of Pacific Grove." Pacific Grove gives Emersonians the butterfly treatment. "They're a little weird," says the chief of police, "but I kind of like seeing them around...
Died. Ex-Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, 61, auto-fancying, welfare-working daughter of Rumania's Queen Marie, great-granddaughter of both Britain's Queen Victoria and Russia's Czar Alexander II, and Yugoslavian monarch from her 1922 marriage to strongman King Alexander I until his 1934 assassination; following a long illness; in London, where she had lived for 20 years, the last 15 in Tito-imposed exile...