Word: regales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role. His home is in Swabia, a good-natured area of Germany that lacks the fierce regional pride that burns so intensely in many parts. He came from a home that was both Lutheran (his father) and Catholic (his stepmother), though he himself is a Catholic today. His regal bearing leads most people to think he is an aristocrat, but he springs, in fact, from a lower-middle-class family, in which he was the eldest of seven children. His father?now a sprightly 90?was a bookkeeper in a textile mill in the town of Ebingen...
Under the new constitution, announced in an elaborate ceremony in Madrid's regal Cortes Meeting Hall, Franco will share power with a premier who will serve as chief of government as distinguished from chief of state. The premier will be picked by Franco-or, after Franco, by Spain's next chief of state-from a list of three candidates nominated by the Council of the Realm. He will serve 'a five-year term and be the operating head of government, subject to various checks and balances...
...unorthodox ways and occasional rudeness of manner are small prices to pay for the integrity and insight with which he tackles his job. Brown is awed by few people, not even by the royal family. When he encountered Princess Margaret at a recent party greeting other ladies with regal little kisses, he asked if he could have one too. Replied Meg, torn between irritation and amusement: "Shut up!" Just about everyone in Britain knows that George Brown, whatever his virtues or faults, is totally incapable of doing that...
...work. At 64, he is the undisputed lord of the manor, and he looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn't mind having if the Met could ever find 15 men to replace...
...peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having her buried in a Vatican vault. As her death mask, disinterred last year, revealed, she remained cold, proud and regal...