Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after he won the election sent Kontiki a check for $250. For any rising young calypso singer, the next step was clear. Then only 16, Kontiki strolled into a local ginmill one night and, in one of the haphazard contests that decide calypso rank, sang down the reigning monarch, one King Cobra. As King Cobra faded into oblivion, Kontiki rose, working his way up to better and costlier bars...
Aboard President Eisenhower's personal Constellation Columbine, Saudi Arabia's brown-robed King Saud began his journey back to the Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud...
Five Pairs of Glasses. King Saud, who had extended his visit a week beyond the three days originally scheduled, prepared for his departure in high spirits. The President gave the King an eight-piece desk set and an original Eisenhower Colorado landscape; the wealthy monarch's gift to Ike was a well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination...
...shows of regard, were settling down to negotiate a tough and workable agreement whereby 1) the U.S. Air Force would continue to use the key $50 million Saudi Arabian air base at Dhahran, 2) the U.S. would send Saud phased shipments of arms that would strengthen Saud as a monarch but would also increase Saud's value as a stability factor in the Middle East...
...country our Air Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy's 21-gun salute for the monarch in New York harbor. But it did win Wagner the back of the hand from President Eisenhower at his press conference (see below...