Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite war, smog and calamity, Americans have a chance this week to find relief from gloom. For one thing, it is National Smile Week, with Actors Raymond Bailey and Irene Ryan of The Beverly Hillbillies as king and queen. It is also National Beauty Queen Week, "to call local and national attention to the promotion of beauty queens and their value to the economy"-though the cause took a small set back last week when 18-year-old Robyn Louise Rawers, monarch of Redwood City, Calif., was arrested for stealing clothes and cash from a sports shop. Best...
...tribal clans. The British tried many times to capture it in battle, but they always failed. During the last Ashanti war, in 1900, the tribe rebelled against the British governor's demand that they surrender the Stool and allow him to sit on it in the name of Queen Victoria. They were also angry with the British for exiling their ruler, Prempeh I to the Seychelles. The British won the war but lost the Stool, which disappeared for a while. The last king, Prempeh II, resisted Kwame Nkrumah's efforts to whittle down his powers. To this...
Bound to Serve. The new King is a British-educated Anglican lawyer, J. Matthew Poku, 51, who had just been appointed Ghana's Ambassador to Rome when he learned that the Ashanti Queen Mother and the tribal chiefs' council had decided that he would succeed his uncle as King. "I had my tickets, my traveler's checks, everything," he says. "But when I was caught by the net, I had no choice." As Asantehene, he may leave Kumasi only with permission from the council and is forbidden by tribal taboo ever to be alone...
...society pianists belted out Rodgers and Hart show tunes and one of the guests-those present swore to conceal her identity-performed an acceptable cancan. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth loved it. That party was staged in Manhattan more than a decade ago. This year's birthday celebration, "a biggish affair with family and close friends," according to the palace's description, will be one fully befitting a royal septuagenarian. Seventy is stately and sugary, according to Cecil Beaton's official photo portrait, which shows the smiling Queen Mother in diamonds and pearls against a backdrop...
...Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser