Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensitive poet by inclination, a statesman by necessity. He is absolute ruler of a tiny kingdom in the high Himalayas, wedged between populous India and Chinese-controlled Tibet. Accompanied by handsome Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, in blue sari and mink coat. King Mahendra moved stiffly through welcoming pomp, kept silent (though he speaks fluent English) during the limousine drive downtown with President Eisenhower...
...Princess and the Photographer (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A slice of what former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge describes as the great royal soap opera: the story of Princess Margaret from childhood to the pomp and ceremony preceding her marriage to Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones...
Grand Girandole. Pomp and circumstance attended him. He stood on a floodlit, red and gold balcony above St. James's Park to watch a cacophonous fireworks display including "The Cross of Lorraine," a "Grand" Girandole of Shells and Mines," and finally, "Ten Signal Aerial Maroons Exploded at a Great Height." Cracked a London newsman: "The explosive power of the demonstration probably equaled one French A-bomb...
...succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them?'' Replied the godparents in unison: "I will renounce them...
...Italy's from 5,666 to 19,945, etc.). As the end of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency draws near, Washington increasingly speculates about how it will feel to him to leave the White House for the comparative obscurity of private life. No man can surrender the pomp and power of the presidency without a sense of loss, but the President's aides are convinced that, on balance, he will welcome his freedom. "He's delighted that there's a 22nd Amendment," says one presidential confidant. "He thinks eight years is enough...