Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mohammed Mossadegh came to power eleven years later, he first drove out the British, then turned his attention to the next obstacle in his way, the young Shah. First, he sent the Shah's sister and mother into exile. The departing Queen Mother warned her son: "Today this man banishes your sister and me. Tomorrow he will turn on you." A few months later Mossadegh did; he demanded that the Shah surrender control of the army. This once, the Shah stood firm. He dismissed Mossadegh and appointed a new Premier in his place, but after three days...
...northern Iran, at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, where he and his pretty Queen were vacationing, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi heard the news of the failure. With Queen Soraya,* he boarded his private twin-engine plane and flew to safety in Bagdad (where he landed unrecognized, asking the name ' of a good hotel). In Teheran, Mossadegh, confined to his iron cot and closely guarded, counted one more obstacle out of his way. Now, though his unhappy country has lost one more source of stability, there was little left to challenge him except the Communist-led mobs, who now sing...
...statistics. Herter led his 17 Congressmen and a pride of experts off on a two-month trip to Europe. He sternly forbade his crew to bring either wives or tuxedoes, and so strict were his rules against extracurricular nonsense that this sign appeared on the door of the Queen Mary's lecture room...
...Queen Victoria...
...claim the federation is designed to keep them in their place. The founders also hope to preserve what they call "the British way." To define it, they staged the Cecil Rhodes Centennial Exhibition at Bulawayo. For weeks they have been importing such staples as Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother (by jet), the Sadler's Wells Ballet, the Hallé Orchestra and the Covent Garden Opera (187 members, 1,500 costumes...