Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erudite, self-assured and sometimes petulant, Hailsham, a devout Tory of the "For Queen and Country" tradition, does not suffer fools gladly-and he includes as fools a wider group than do more prudent politicos. Outspoken to the point of bluster, courageous to the point of rashness, he sounded off from the Lords against nationalized industry, Socialism ("imposed equality"), in favor of capital punishment, against lowbrow radio and TV programs, and above all, for a "firm" British line in foreign affairs. After Suez he came into his own as the party's favorite orator, blurting openly what many Conservatives...
...dark-eyed, black-haired bachelor king's search for a wife and Queen was further circumscribed by the requirement that she be of noble birth and a devout Moslem. An early attempt to announce his troth-to a five-year-old daughter of Egypt's King Farouk-was abandoned almost as soon as it was considered; the latest attempt to marry him to a daughter of Morocco's King Mohammed V was given up last winter. Reasons: her Moroccan Arabic was almost incomprehensible to an Iraqi, and besides, she was no blonde. This summer 22-year...
Quos for Pros. John Joseph James Miller uncovers the celebrities like a one-man Confidential (whose contents he dismisses as "despicable"). His stuff ranges from the smutty to the delirious. Samples: "A bungled assassination attempt on the Queen of England was hushed up real fast." "Sophia Loren likes to stand in front of a mirror for hours admiring herself while wearing nooding." "Marlon Brando slugged the hairdresser at the beauty parlor he visits daily...
...plays a role. The State Department emphasizes that American airline operations everywhere overseas are almost entirely dependent on the good will of foreign nations, which means that they must be kept reasonably happy. An uproar over routes can arouse surprising bitterness. In the case of Holland's KLM, Queen Juliana herself made an earnest speech for a U.S. route because to the Dutch, like many others, the airline is not merely a business but a national symbol, compensation in part for the vanishing Dutch navy and the lost East Indies...
What made Britons really mad was the fact that Queen Elizabeth had hoped to fly the Atlantic next month in one of the new planes, a fitting vehicle for Empire pride. Now she will have to go in one of BOAC's Douglas DC-7s. Said the London Daily Sketch: "At a time when state visits carry more prestige and importance than ever before, we are obliged to give the world a humiliating instance of Britain's dependence on America...