Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diligent Beauty Queen. If Powell escaped procedural hanging, he had certainly been drawn and congressionally quartered. By a vote of 27 to 1 the committee adopted stringent measures to control its wayward chairman. Among them were provisions 1) making the committee staff director responsible to the majority rather than Powell; 2) empowering the ranking majority member to report committee-approved bills to the full House, thus ending Powell's ability to pocket veto legislation at will; 3) requiring majority approval of the committee budget and a detailed review of all expense accounts...
...pretty secretaries, at the taxpayer's expense. His third wife lives in Puerto Rico while drawing $20,000 annually as a staff member; estranged from her about two years ago, Powell has recently been depositing her pay in his own account. Another staff member was a former beauty queen whose diligence once earned her a raise from $10,144 to $15,583 a year. Even as rebellion flared in Powell's own committee last week, the House Administration Committee launched a separate investigation of his expense-account sleight of hand...
...this pride. It will be the longest and one of the most expensive birthday blowouts any nation has ever had. At the spectacular harbor site of Expo 67, on mainly manmade islands in the St. Lawrence River, the pavilions of 70 nations, which are now abuilding, will welcome visitors. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have already accepted invitations. The Parliament buildings in Ottawa will provide a backdrop for a May-to-October son et lumiere spectacle, and Sir Tyrone Guthrie, the Shakespearean showman who launched Canada's Stratford, will produce a centennial spectacle on Parliament Hill...
...when they insisted on going home, the government banished them from Bechuanaland until 1956 when they and their children (now three sons, one daughter) were finally allowed to return. Britain may have long since swallowed its prejudice, but it took until last week to show its pride when Queen Elizabeth knighted Prime Minister (since March 1965) Khama, 45, as Commander of the Order of the British Empire. None too soon. On Sept. 30, Bechuanaland becomes the Independent Republic of Botswana-Sir Seretse Khama, President...
...from front door to rear window-as long as a 47-story building is high. The gracefully arching fagade, soaring 96 ft. in cathedral-like splendor between the glass-and-marble rectangles of the New York State Theater and Philharmonic Hall, dominates the surrounding plaza like a queen among princesses. It is a fittingly magnificent capstone to Lincoln Center: the world's largest opera house set in the world's largest cultural complex. It is, moreover, a fitting memorial to an enduring art, for it symbolizes, if not a resurgence of opera (for opera has never before been...