Word: queen
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Your article in the June 15 issue regarding my son Jaime Laredo [Bolivian violinist winner of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition] has a misinformation about the help received from the Bolivian government. Instead of $600 a year, it is $300 a month...
...second is out of place in Canada. He should be an American citizen, not a British subject." For the next four weeks, though they will grumble darkly at the cost and occasionally disparage the Crown itself, Canadians will turn out to see the Crown in the person of their Queen, Elizabeth II. Hers is a task much in contrast to the imperial role of her grandparents (later George V and Queen Mary) when they toured India in 1905 (see cut). Now the prides, loyalties and sympathies that Canadians feel are shared, in some degree at least, by the quarter...
...began auspiciously enough with her storybook arrival last week at St. John's, Nfld., when menacing fog banks, which had clung for days to the airport, rolled back in time for the Queen's Comet to land. While a 21-gun salute boomed away, the Queen and Prince Philip were greeted by Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. In St. John's, the royal couple bore out advance notices that their visit would be comfortably informal by mingling with the crowd and chatting briefly with ordinary citizens...
This royal tour is also billed as an effort to get to out-of-the-way places-so the Queen was soon off to Schefferville, an iron-mining village near the Labrador border. She greeted chiefs of the Montagnais-Naskapi Indians, gave one of them a reassuring smile when he lost his balance while curtseying in his blue, fur-trimmed parka. At the U.S.'s Harmon airbase at Stephenville, Nfld., a Ford convertible assigned for royal use failed to start. Prince Philip cracked: "Too bad we don't have a British car"-whereupon the royal couple transferred...
Elizabeth II will be in Canada for 44 days, will make a one-day jaunt south of the border to Chicago, whose Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson in the 1920s threatened to punch the Queen's grandfather, George V, "in the snoot." At the trip's high point this week, President Eisenhower joins the Queen aboard Britannia to dedicate the 182-mile St. Lawrence Seaway, which links the U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes with the world's deep water...