Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parading and full-dress parties is planned. A new Hilton is opening, and the government is getting ready its application for the United Nations. President Johnson is sending Chief Justice Earl Warren to represent him at the ceremonies, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will represent the Queen. Yet this week, as tiny (166 sq. mi.), ham-shaped Barbados gets its formal independence from Britain-the 23rd British possession to do so since World War II-its air is filled with a sense of restraint and nostalgia not usually associated with independence celebrations...
...same Bangkok-based U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that inspired the formation of the ADB, the fair opened with Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej releasing 2,509 pigeons - one for each year of the Buddhist era. The King then joined his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, for a swing through 250 acres of fairgrounds in a yellow Rolls-Royce...
...effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please the Queen, and possibly encourage the redcoats...
...official coming of age: he replaces his father as regent-designate, would directly assume his mother's powers should she be unable to carry out her duties. Also, he becomes one of the six counselors of state-members of the royal family who act for the Queen in her absence abroad...
...with his French-born wife and eight children, devotes mornings to his business, afternoons and evenings to Parliament, to which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make his maiden speech. "I was glad he waited until the Queen finished," sniffed one critic. Maxwell shrugs off such gibes. His ambition now, he says, is "to halt the retreat of our country." As a start, he is flooding the market with texts, handbooks, tapes and films to help companies cope with Britain's massive new effort to retrain industrial...