Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Charles de Gaulle, who had recruited Thorez as a Cabinet minister after World War II in the desperate effort to rebuild the nation,* pronounced a qualified tribute: "I do not forget that in a decisive period for France, Maurice Thorez - whatever his actions before or after-followed my call...
With that declaration of belief and practical politics-meant to appeal to moderates both within and without the Republican Party-Pennsylvania's Governor William Warren Scranton, 46, threw himself headlong into the G.O.P. contest for this year's presidential nomination. In so doing, he injected a rush of...
Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night...
Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the ministers of the six...
The ceremonial procedures evolved slowly, and gradually grew in number. For a long while now, the University Marshall has officially opened Commencement with the call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order," which follows the end of the procession. The Sheriff of Middlesex will then rise in his blue colonial garb...