Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cause of Mintoff's wrath was an Admiralty decision to fire 40 workmen at the Royal Navy's dockyard, which, together with a NATO naval headquarters constitutes the chief source of employment in the island. Keenly aware of the declining utility of naval bases in a missile age, Mintoff had vastly complicated his integration negotiations with Britain by insisting that whatever becomes of the dockyard, the British must not only agree to maintain full employment in the island, but must also promise to raise Maltese economic standards within twelve years to the same levels enjoyed by the British...
...year-old Lotte Lehmann proved to British radio audiences that, in the sense of the Marschallin's words, she is still the same. In a dozen "master classes" last fall, retired Soprano Lehmann coached 30 students from London's Opera School and young professionals from the Royal Opera House. The Rosenkavalier classes-tape-recorded and now broadcast over BBC-displayed her old magic and the extraordinary musical intelligence that helped make Lotte Lehmann one of the great singers of her time...
Five members of Japan's royal family obligingly strolled out on the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, beamed down on Anastasia, a pet dog of Prince Alcihito (TIME, Dec. 30). With Akihito were his pretty sister Princess Suga, 18, Empress Nagako, Poetaster Emperor Hirohito (whose New Year verse on the clouds will be published next week) and 22-year-old Prince Yoshi...
Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 32, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, second Negro woman (the first Marian Anderson) to sing at the Met; and Bengt Janzon, 44, public-relations director of the Royal Opera, Stockholm; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Died. Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne, 54, bearded British soldier of fortune; of a heart attack; in Belle-Isle, France. Sea Dog Orsborne joined the Royal Navy at 14, fought in two world wars, in 1936 stole a 30-ton trawler, the Girl Pat, and with crew of three sailed 5,000 miles down the African coast and across the Atlantic, for his feat earned an 18-month jail sentence. Tracing Charles Darwin's 19th century world voyage in the Beagle, Orsborne in 1951 sailed the ketch Argosy from England, ended his trip abruptly in Trinidad when arrested...