Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women have copied St. Nick and the traffic departments in picking bright red as the color stopper of the season. Royal blue, kelly green, and black are prominent too. White is always a Christmas favorite, but pastels have somewhat faded out of the picture this year...
...when he got the report later: "Why did you have to tell me this?" Replied an aide: "Well, your Majesty, someone had to." "Yes, I know," said the King. "I wish it were not so." Thus, on the first .day of a two-week trip in the U.S., the royal guest was confronted with the unhappy fact that his host had become ill right after bidding him welcome. When the President two days later invited the King to his bedroom for an informal visit, Mohammed spent a quiet ten minutes with Ike, told him: "We say in Morocco that...
Souvanna Phouma gave the Communists two seats in the Cabinet, and in return Souphanouvong agreed to integrate 1,500 of his 6,000-odd Communist troops into the royal army. The rest of the Pathet Lao army would be placed in "reserve status," and permitted to return to their native villages, there to create what unrest they could...
...announced that he had lost a list of Red officials and army personnel that he was supposed to turn over to his halfbrother. He said he would go back to Samneua and Phongsaly to see if he could get another. The rest of Laos' ministers, all now technically royal and loyal, went nightclubbing. Communist broadcasters in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow were jubilant. "The agreement," said Radio Hanoi, "would serve as a model for the reunification of North and South Viet...
...line with Buckingham Palace's policy of treating the British royal family's private affairs as top secrets, little was known about the tenth wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip except that they observed the occasion with a small dinner party (menu undisclosed), saw a movie (title undisclosed), had a few folks in (names undisclosed) and exchanged some gifts. This was enough to give London's gossipists a field day. They variously reported that Philip gave the Queen a piece of jewelry designed by himself, a big bouquet of white carnations, a gleaming electric...