Word: queene
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West Germany's Helmut Schmidt and Canada's Pierre Trudeau both came to meetings with Reagan ready to eat him for breakfast. They ended up proclaiming their good feeling for him. India's granite lady, Indira Gandhi, actually seemed coquettish with Reagan. Queen Elizabeth did not have to throw a party-after-the-party for the Reagans during her West Coast visit. But she did, and even joined in songs around the piano, a royal rarity...
...Blunt was a model of well-bred civility and fastidious integrity. But as a Cambridge don in the 1930s he recruited Soviet agents, and as a member of British intelligence during World War II he leaked information to the Soviets. Though he was allowed to continue advising the Queen until his retirement, he privately confessed to British authorities in 1964 that he was the "fourth man" along with three notorious fellow Cambridge traitors: Guy Burgess, who died in Moscow in 1963; Donald Maclean, who died in Moscow last month; and H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, still living in the Soviet Union...
From the day they are born to the day they die, members of the British royal family live off the working citizens of their country. The Queen and her family should not object to the interest they generate. The people have a right to see what they are paying...
Your article on Queen Elizabeth's visit to the New World erroneously refers to her in its subheading as H.R.H. (Her Royal Highness). The correct abbreviation of the Queen's official title is H.M. (Her Majesty...
Burford, known by colleagues as the Ice Queen and once described in her home state of Colorado as so tough "she could kick a bear to death with her bare feet," succumbed with quiet dignity. Her celebrated feistiness had faded under the emotional strain of seeing her agency tarred by allegations ranging from perjury and conflict of interest by her top aides, to mismanagement and political favoritism. She also faced a congressional contempt citation for invoking, on Reagan's orders, Executive privilege to withhold subpoenaed EPA documents from House subcommittees. "She had come apart at the seams personally...