Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp-bladed pangas and wearing his hair in long braids smeared with red mud - the fighting insignia of the Mau Mau terrorists. The crowd fell silent as the four approached the dais where sat Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta and his honored guest, Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. With his lumbering, elephant walk, Kenyatta descended from the dais, pushed through his startled security guards, and greeted the Mau Mau. "Kenya is free now," he said. "There is no need to hide or fight." Peacefully, the four men surrendered their weapons...
...China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi to India's Indira Gandhi and U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Also from the U.S., as guests and entertainers, came Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.* There were balls, garden parties, receptions, the laying of cornerstones, and the presentation of gifts. Queen Elizabeth gave Kenyatta the royal lodge at Sagana; the Aga Khan turned over to him his own former residence; a group of U.S. businessmen donated a white Lincoln Continental...
...Watchdog. Though Conservative Karamanlis was the ablest Premier in recent Greek history, King Paul and Queen Frederika considered him highhanded (he thought the same of the Queen); they also opposed his ideas of reforming the constitution to give the Premier stronger executive powers. In June, when they rejected Karamanlis' advice to call off a scheduled state visit to Britain because of possible leftist demonstrations, he resigned and spent three months in a Swiss villa. Returning to run for reelection, he was narrowly defeated by wily, middle-of-the-road George Papandreou, 75. Karamanlis wanted to quit then...
Died. Dinah Washington, 39, jazz singer, an ebullient Chicago Negro who in two decades of nightclub and record performances earned up to $150,000 a year (best-known number: What a Difference a Day Makes), and a title from her fans as "Queen of the Blues"; of unknown causes, while watching television with her seventh husband, Detroit Lions' Halfback Dick ("Night Train") Lane: in Detroit...
...that widespread clucking was confirmed when Kensington Palace announced that Princess Margaret, 33, is indeed expecting her second child next year. That means, if everything goes well, that there will be a royal baby a month-starting in February with Princess Alexandra, followed by Queen Elizabeth in early March, Meg in late April and the Duchess of Kent...