Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began quietly enough when the Falange organized a "spontaneous" demonstration of Madrid students to protest Queen Elizabeth's planned visit to Gibraltar (TIME, Feb.1). Classes were dismissed, flags passed out, and thousands of students set off happily for the British embassy shouting "Death to Queen Elizabeth," and "Britain, get out of here." On their way, they enthusiastically smashed the windows of a British bank...
...event on Friday is the "Outdoor Evening" where the coronation of the Carnival's Queen of Snows takes place. She will be chosen from a selection of "dates" judged by the students. In addition, there will be a concert and many jam sessions. The Carnival Ball is on Saturday. The House parties begin at nine...
...replied Canberra, because that might imply Australian recognition of Eire's claim to Northern Ireland, and with the Queen herself due for a visit to Canberra, that would never do. How, suggested the Australian government, about "Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland," or even "Ambassador to President Sean T. O'Ceallaigh," just as the British themselves do it, spelling O'Kelly in the Gaelic way? No, said Dublin firmly, it would have to be "Ireland" or nothing...
Died. Princess Margarethe of Hesse, 81, sister of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers...
Last week the Senators, by a 36-10-4 vote, approved the European Army treaty, which has already passed the Lower House. With Queen Juliana's signature, EDC becomes the law of the land, making The Netherlands the first of the six member nations to open wide the door to European Union...