Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRONT ROYAL (pop. 9,000). With the closing of the only high school in Warren County (TIME, Sept. 22). business slowed to a standstill. The P.T.A. canceled its fun festival. Students lazed around The Corner Shoppe across the street from the maple-shaded courthouse, drinking Cokes, leafing through girlie magazines, playing the pinball machine. Both management and labor at the nearby American Viscose Corp. plant spoke up hotly against the school shutdown. Key reason for the bitterness: the Negro population in Front Royal is so small (8% of the total population) that the town could work out its problems...
Right then and there the steam went out of the meeting, but Front Royal parents had at least made it clear that there is a limit to patience and endurance...
Last year stately, plump Queen Juliana of The Netherlands walked up for her annual Speech from the Throne with the heavy grace of a Wagnerian diva. Last week a trim, svelte (25 Ibs. lighter) Juliana delivered another royal oration, and the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises...
...Anglican Church's position in the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend brouhaha: "The inevitable mush-headed vicar has put in his appearance . . . There could be a slightly Gilbert and Sullivanish flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...
...Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club had an impressive list of triumphs to its credit. With an average weight of 12 stone 8--176 pounds--the RAF men had an immediate 27-pound advantage a man. They had defeated Clare College of Cambridge, the Isis Boat Club of Oxford, and the Crowland Rowing Club handily...