Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 100,000 foreign tourists, who will have journeyed to Israel by plane and aboard 15 passenger liners. A small army of police and soldiers has already been posted at airports, harbors and along the parade route in Jerusalem. Particular care is being taken to safeguard the Queen Elizabeth 2, which sailed to Israel last week with 620 passenger-pilgrims aboard...
When Sikkim's benign and enlightened King Palden Thondup Namgyal was crowned eight years ago in Gang-tok, he offered this pledge for himself and his queen, former New York Debutante Hope Cooke: "Together may we make Sikkim a paradise on earth." Today, Indian troops patrol his capital and his dreams of paradise look dark...
...deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines...
Married. James Edward Lascelles. 19, second son of the Earl of Harewood (the Queen's cousin) and 20th in line of succession to the British throne; and Freddy Duhrssen, 19, American student and member of a Suffolk commune; both for the first time; in Wortham, England. Lascelles, organist for a rock group called the Global Village Trucking Company, and Duhrssen met more than a year ago and, according to the bride, "fell restaurant." in love in a vegetarian...
...lucidly, he talks of topics as diverse as the rebellion of modern youth ("an explosion of despair"), the art of Marcel Duchamp, Sade's philosophy ("His model is not a volcano, although he liked volcanoes very much, but cold lava"). Paz even notes the first feminist, Penthesilea, legendary queen of the Amazons, who ruled from "a throne of vertigo and tides...