Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse than Woolly. Next day, Greek Premier Panayotis Pipinelis, who accompanied the King and Queen, granted Mrs. Ambatielos a 45-minute hearing, whereupon she calmed down. Back in Greece, 19 of the prisoners (not including Ambatielos) were freed. At week's end the royal couple quietly returned to Greece. Said Frederika before she left: "The decision to come to Brit ain for a state visit was the right one, absolutely right. I am not worried about these few people who demonstrated. The memory I have is of the warm reception we were given on our arrival...
...Born Princess of Hanover, Frederika is a granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (and a great-great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, which also makes her a British princess and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth). When Frederika was a year old, her family moved from Germany to Austria, where she spent most of her childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only...
...lavish Los Angeles motel? A used Thunderbird lot? Or Steve Mc Queen's palatial pad? No, it is Beverly Hills High School, a pink stucco hacienda that boasts 1,750 over-achieving students, a producing oil well on the premises, a summer school in France and spotless academic credentials. Gloats one teacher: "It's the nearest thing to a private school that a public school...
...does a queen bee keep her colony together? In Nature, Dr. James Simpson of Rothamsted Experimental Station, England, reported that her influence is a scent more compelling than any compounded by French perfumers...
When a cluster of swarming bees is deprived of its queen, the bees soon desert to other bee colonies unless she returns. To find out why, Dr. Simpson imprisoned a queen in a wire-screen cage with double walls. He put the cage near a cluster of worried, queenless bees. The workers responded joyously. They swarmed all over the cage, vibrating their wings. But when Simpson imprisoned a queen in a small, transparent plastic bag, she had no effect on the other bees. They could see and hear her, but they ignored her completely...