Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, at Wilson's behest, Queen Elizabeth signed a proclamation declaring a national state of emergency, under laws invoked only five times in the past 50 years.* The proclamation enables the government to impose price controls and to clear congested ports-presumably by using Royal Navy tugs and crews-and allow foreign ships, which are unaffected by the striking National Union of Seamen, to dock and unload essential food, raw materials and medical supplies. Well aware that the use of the Royal Navy could provoke sympathy strikes by dockers and truckers handling imported goods, Wilson's government later...
Near the speaker's stand in Georgetown's Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny...
Last week Jagan was biding his time. Under Britain's terms of independence, Guyana will keep a contingent of British troops till October and remain a constitutional monarchy for three years, with Queen Elizabeth as its head of state. Then voters will elect a new government and decide by referendum whether they want to become a republic. With the East Indian population growing far faster than the Negro segment-and thus producing more voters every year-Jagan hopes by election time to have the added racial support he needs to beat Burnham. Burnham's only hope...
...eats up both sides of the road, veers away into grassy fields, finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to the late Dowager Queen Mary. Well-wishers greet her with respect, for she is the progenitor of four generals, an admiral, a bishop and other dignitaries, several of whose names escape...
...another actress, the movie Morgan! would have been the top of a career; for Vanessa Redgrave, 29, it has only been a steppingstone to a throne. Next year she will be Queen Guinevere in Warner Bros.' screen adaptation of Camelot, a role that Julie Andrews played on Broadway...