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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saucers Have Landed) sold nearly 100,000 copies, and this year he went on a worldwide lecture tour. In England last month, he got a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society, saying that she had received a call from the palace "that the Queen would like to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Without wasting a minute, George tipped off a London newspaper. When the news hit The Hague, the court hit the ceiling: the whole thing was too reminiscent of the Queen's strange attachment for Greet Hofmans, the faith healer who became a sort of a nuisance in the palace (TIME, June 25, 1956). Unable to dissuade the Queen from granting the audience, her advisers hit upon a scheme that at least might assure the nation that she would not succumb to any spell again. It surrounded her with a protective guard of some of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Impassive? Interested? On the appointed day last week, a royal limousine called for Adamski and whisked him to the palace. For the benefit of the Queen, he repeated some of his adventures, told of a California girl he knew who eloped with a Venusian and was never seen again. Each distinguished gentleman present had his own version of the visitor's reception. "The man's a pathological case," said the Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Heye Schaper. Said President Cornelis Kolff of the Dutch Aeronautical Association: "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Queen's men could not make the audience seem any the more palatable. "A shame for our country," cried Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...London, Buckingham Palace moved with the speed of light to scotch rumors that the Duke of Edinburgh might invite Adamski around to see his Queen: "The royal family has decided that it cannot entertain Mr. Adamski or his ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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