Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year he persuaded the Queen to let him take the royal yacht Britannia on a four-month tour of the Antarctic and the lesser British island possessions in the Indian Ocean. This was the separation that later set off the rumors in the U.S. press of a royal rift. Elizabeth's subjects, however, were more sensible. Australians were charmed when he talked to wharf laborers, called in small groups of representative citizens for cocktails and dinner and quizzed them on Commonwealth affairs. New Zealanders remember him fondly at a lunch in Christchurch, breaking into the speeches...
...give readers first-hand coverage of events in Europe and the Middle East. Last week, after six months of steady travel in which he broke the news (after an interview with Khrushchev) of the Soviet Union's sweeping industrial reorganization, covered the Jordan crisis, traced the growing rift between King Saud and Egypt's Nasser, Roving Reporter Alsop decided the experiment was a success, will work overseas indefinitely. This fall he plans to leave Paris for Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Philippines and Japan...
Economic fumbling and pressure on the banks at last turned Colombia's business. men against Rojas; corruption and killing earned him the wrath of the church. Toward the end of last week, ignoring Rojas' attempt to smooth over the rift, Colombia's Primate Crisanto Cardinal Luque issued a pastoral letter with his bitterest attack yet on Rojas. That night, the dictator's military supporters gathered for a worried meeting...
Running north and south from the Red Sea to Mozambique is one vast fissure, the Great Rift Valley. Along one side the molten center of the earth itself spewed upward to form the great volcanic peaks of Kilimanjaro (elevation: 19,565 ft.), Mt. Kenya and the other volcanoes of the east. In its deepest clefts lie Africa's great lakes: Nyasa, Tanganyika and Lake Albert, with Lake Victoria, second in size only to North America's Lake Superior, on the high plateau near by. On either side of the great central rift, Middle Africa's land stretches...
Granted as reward for his services to the realm during his long Commonwealth tour, and perhaps also to bury the rumors of a family rift (TIME, Feb. 18), Philip's new title has no practical implications. He was born a prince (of the Royal Danish house of Schleswig-Holstein-Son-derburg-Glucksburg, which originated in Germany and now rules Greece) and, though he renounced the title officially to become a British subject, he continued to call himself Prince Philip. When Philip became engaged to Elizabeth, King George VI made the ex-Greek prince an English royal duke with...