Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After receiving a detailed, classified briefing on Thailand affairs, a U.S. State Department officer in Bangkok read our May 27, 1966 cover story on the Thai King and Queen. He found the story more comprehensive than the briefing, including much information considered quite inside by Thai authorities. Reports Bangkok Bureau Chief Louis Kraar: "Many military officers assigned to Thailand say they have used the story as orientation because it was just about the only thing that was both complete and current, yet concise." ¶ On five-acre Pigeon Island in the South Pacific, Tom Hepworth, who runs a trading post...
BADEN-POWELL STAMPS bicycle-mounted field messengers, the prototype of the subsequent Boy Scout. The appearance of a subject's portrait on an officially recognized postage stamp reportedly shocked Queen Victoria to the whalebones; she deemed it highly improper that any but the ruling sovereign's likeness should appear on any postage stamp within the British Empire...
...secret in Britain that George Brown sometimes takes a drink-or that a drink sometimes takes him. On other occasions, he has shown what was considered undue familiarity with members of the royal family (he once even asked Princess Margaret for a kiss). At a farewell party aboard the Queen Mary last month, he frugged with a series of ladies and reportedly nibbled the ear of one. The photographers loved it, and London's tabloids splashed the pictures across their front pages. The photographers were back in force last week looking for more...
...make their transition to retire ment less harsh, Obote is arranging severance pay for the kings in amounts ranging from $25,000 for the ex-Queen of Buganda, who stayed behind when Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black...
...farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save the Queen round the pub piano...