Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch in more than 100 years,* the old pram in which Queen Elizabeth herself was wheeled was dug out of the palace lumber room, tastefully refurbished in anticipation of its new royal occupant...
During all his 55 years on the throne-the longest reign of any living monarch -it sometimes seemed as if King Sisavang Vong of Laos had found a way to survive history simply by ignoring it. He never openly fought for independence from the French, but instead of earning the resentment of his people, he won only greater affection. When the French urged him to take a firmer stand against the Japanese in World War II, he patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally...
Last week for devotees of the Beach all around the world, there was earth-shaking news: Doney's was no longer unquestioned monarch of the Via Veneto. The challenger: the bustling Café de Paris, which occupies the sidewalk opposite Doney's, and for the last few months has been looking more and more like a winner...
...initial meeting with Tito in 1954 opened Haile Selassie's eyes to another kind of bargaining. Under the tutelage of the Yugoslav fence-straddler-the Emperor and Tito have twice traded visits, Tito has presented the monarch with a yacht, and Ethiopia has built a palace in Addis Ababa just for Tito-Haile Selassie has veered away from the West to sample the plums of neutralism. After a triumphant red-carpet tour of Europe and the Iron Curtain this summer, the Emperor came home counting his blessings like beads on a string: $5,000,000 from the Czechs...
...members of the opposition have made the biggest headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...