Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a U.S. Army band tootled Hearts of Stone, 787 Canadian infantrymen trudged down the gangplank of a U.S. Navy transport in Seattle harbor one day last week. They were officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, heading home after a year of exacting but unspectacular service along the Korean truce line...
Unless a new crisis develops, the Queen's Own will probably be the last major Canadian army unit to serve in Korea. A 200-man field ambulance unit and the 900-man crew of the destroyer Sioux are the only Canadians left there of some 33,100* who served during and after the war. Canada is now negotiating with other Commonwealth countries and with the U.S. to withdraw all Canadian forces from the Far East. A Black Watch battalion originally scheduled to replace the homecoming Queen's Own got last-minute orders not to embark. The informal explanation...
...winning ways won the heart of Queen Victoria and strengthened the foundations of the Entente Cordiale. His muddled pursuit of one of his uncle's favorite foreign-policy dreams led to the unification of Italy. He gave France its first legal trade unions and old-age pensions. Above all, his determination to give Paris a Napoleonic splendor resulted in the city's spacious boulevards...
Warm in the April sunshine, London's upper-crust horseplayers crowded the club enclosure at Kempton Park Race Track. Peeresses in Dior tweeds appraised each other when they were done appraising the ponies. Their husbands, in Saville Row suits, lifted black bowlers when they passed near their Queen. But there was one extraordinary note in the picture, more jarring than a peer in jeans: the ladies and gentlemen were all clutching the Daily Worker. Deprived by the newspaper strike (TIME, April 18) of Sporting Life and all the London dailies, British racing fans were taking their tips from...
...over. Many of them expect to study and learn trades. For, as Higgins, a former stoker, puts it: "Education an' qualification an' distinction is the order o' de day." Higgins is heading for a cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching job. But one Trinidadian, known simply as Strange Man, scoffs at education as a "rope they givin' you to hang yuhself wid." His own reason for emigrating is simple: "Well, 'tis simply because ah little...