Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing." What gave monarchy the coup de grace, De Gramont suggests, was a new power, a new style setter: public opinion. "My infallible Queen," Jacques Necker, one of Louis XVl's Finance Ministers, called it in a switch of fealty. Public opinion, influenced by Voltaire and a prestigious literary antiEstablishment, made regal style seem dated and absurd even to aristocrats...
...single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched...
Earlier in the day the actress and her entourage visited Governor Volpe at the statehouse. The Governor surprised all present by proclaiming March 5 "Hasty Pudding Day in the Sate of Massachusetts." This year's Pudding show, All the Queen's Men, open on that date next week...
After a brief visit with Governor Volpe at the state house, Miss Lansbury's motorcade wil come to the Pudding Clubhouse at 12 Holyoke Street to be greeted by fans and by the "hairy-legged chorus of this year's show, All the Queen...
Born. To Hope Cooke, 27, Manhattan-born socialite who left the U.S. five years ago to become Queen of the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, and King Palden Thondup Namgyal, 44: their second child, first daughter (the King has three children by his first wife, who died in 1957); in Calcutta...