Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parliament. She likes sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought her clothes?usually neatly tailored suits and blouses, often from Marks & Spencer?on twice-a-year bulk-buying sprees. Even the Queen sometimes appears slightly wind-blown in public, but Thatcher is invariably coifed and lacquered against the elements. She has already advised the staff at Downing Street that they "will have to understand that I must have an hour in my schedule once a week to have my hair done...
...leading Botswana through this diplomatic minefield is Sir Seretse Khama, 57, the country's first and only President and the grandson of Khama the Great, one of the tribal chieftains who sought neutrality under Queen Victoria's protection a century ago. Sir Seretse suffers from diabetes and a weak heart, but these ailments have not prevented him from giving Botswana steady leadership. Says a friend: "Khama has been weak from the day he was born, but he always seems strong when we need...
After 258 years, home rule finally came to the world's largest island last week. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik made the five-hour flight from Copenhagen to Greenland's Søndre Strømfjord airport, helicoptered another two hours to Godthaab, the tiny (pop. 10,000) capital, and handed over the autonomy decree, bound in red leather, to the 21-member parliament. The royal couple then trudged through a May Day sleet storm to the 125-year-old Godthaab church for a short Lutheran service. After a Danish patrol boat boomed...
...island has just two native-born doctors and one dentist (as well as only three lawyers). Asked whether the alcohol and VD problems could be solved, one of the local doctors pondered and said, "Immaqa" (maybe). At the end of her home rule speech the Queen said: "Gûtip Kalâtdlit-Nunât sianigiliuk " (God bless Greenland). The islanders will need more than fond benedictions if they are to make a success of their semisovereign future...
...synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning that the car, or perhaps the listener, is overheating...