Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Princess Margaret, an all-too-eligible bachelor girl, turned 29, was greeted by Britain's press with heartfelt congratulations and a bit of "will-she-ever" worry. At the royal family gathering in Scotland's Balmoral Castle, only one romantic mystery added spice to the day. An orchid corsage, ordered by cable from the U.S., was delivered by a local florist, who refused to name the donor...
...Chicken for a Baby. Then he went back to the jungle. For his first hospital, Dr. Dooley picked Nam Tha, a tiny village in north Laos. The royal government supplied 44 canoes for the eight-day trip to get his 14 tons of equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken...
Alone, neither hydrochloric nor nitric acid will dissolve the "noble metals" gold and platinum, but a mixture of the two will. So to this potent corrosive the medieval alchemists gave the name aqua regia-royal water. Last week in Brooklyn, fumes from royal water knocked out scores of factory workers and firemen. left several in hospitals, threatened with severe aftereffects...
...pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating away a flange where the pipe entered, and emitting noxious fumes...
Born. To Dominic Elwes, 28, free-spending man-about-London, son of Royal Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary...