Word: regalization
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...headed by the Hambro family since it was founded six generations ago by a Danish immigrant. But parking lots are exactly the kind of enterprise sought by forward-looking Executive Chairman J. H. ("Jack") Hambro, 59, who believes that the times have passed when merchant bankers could concentrate on regal requirements. He has turned Hambros to bigger profits from a multitude of smaller ventures. "We are consciously unorthodox," says he. "Anything that concerns money we attempt to cater for." Hambros is profiting from this unorthodoxy: it has $500 million in assets, almost triple those of ten years...
...modeled on a Venetian palazzo, after Architect Sir Gilbert Scott's original Gothic façade was indignantly rejected by Prime Minister Lord Palmerston as "admirable for a monastery." (It later made an admirable Gothic railway station.) From a pompous exterior decked with 63 allegorical statues to regal suites designed more for la dolce vita than diplomacy, the building was so wildly inappropriate that within ten years after completion it was roundly condemned by a parliamentary commission...
...Claus costumes, locked the employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol of the times. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, a regal, 60-ft. Norway spruce blazed with thousands of lights and shiny aluminum spangles...
...front and center marched the regal, khaki-clad figure of Charles de Gaulle. At his side was Queen Frederika of Greece. And on either side of them were: King Baudouin of Belgium in army khaki; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, splendid in his decorations and chartreuse sash; West Germany's President Heinrich Lübke; Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal; Korea's President-elect General Park Chung Hee. They, along with 213 other world leaders, headed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, eight blocks away...
...before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said, "I feel as if a thousand needles stab me when I see all those binoculars turned at me." The king's therapy was truly regal: from 1872 until his death in 1886, he scheduled 209 performances at which, as sole spectator, he applauded madly and shouted "Bravo!" from his lonely...