Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hobbies and qualifications on an IBM card, can in minutes mechanically thumb 24,000 cards and flick out names of policemen who understand Tagalog or Tonkinese or deaf-mute sign language, who are tall enough (6 ft. 3 in.) to form an honor guard for England's visiting Queen Elizabeth II, who know bees well enough (twelve do) to handle the swarm that appeared suddenly last month in Brooklyn...
From the very moment that Sir Robert Walpole, George II's First Lord of the Treasury, moved into it in 1735, it began to be the center of British power. Queen Caroline would breakfast there, and then return to the palace to persuade her weaker husband to do just what the gallant Walpole suggested. But in its varied career as the home of the Pitts, the Disraelis, the Gladstones, the Churchills and lesser men who have guided the history of Britain, one thing about the narrow, unassuming house has remained constant. Jerry-built as a real estate speculation...
...regal acknowledgment of British inflation, Queen Elizabeth II ordered a 6.4% pay hike for her staff of 200, the second cost-of-living increase in Buckingham Palace wages in five years...
...began when Los Angeles station KCOP-TV (Channel 13) brought in a beauty queen to do the Philco commercials in place of Oscar's ailing wife June. Oscar had expected to do the commercials himself, and this "humiliation" shook him from id to toe. He was rude, hustled her off-camera before she could make her sales pitch, was notified within minutes that Philco had canceled sponsorship of the show. In a rage, Oscar launched into an on-the-air assault on Philco, urged his audience not to buy Philco until the company returned to his program...
...week (for $900 a performance -$300 more than KCOP-TV gave him) on KHJ-TV's Channel 9. By now knowing which side its customers are buttered on, Philco was expected to tag along prudently with its peevish star. Promised Oscar: "I'll treat them like Queen Mary visiting the poor...