Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...route to the U.S., the royal couple stopped off in the Dominican Republic, where Christopher Columbus, financed by Queen Isabella of Spain, made one of his first landfalls in the New World in 1492. In Washington, President Ford welcomed Juan Carlos and Sofia on the south lawn of the White House, then went off with the King and aides for a 40-minute review of Spanish-American relations. The talk centered on the proposed five-year treaty renewing U.S. base rights in Spain in return for $1.2 billion in grants and credits. Though the treaty is likely to be approved...
When Iceland's patrol boats attempted to thwart British fishing by cutting the trawlers' costly nets and towlines, British fishermen demanded protection. London responded by ordering Royal Navy frigates into the area to shield the trawlers from the Icelandic boats. What often followed was a seaborne game of "chicken." Ships of the two countries, in fact, came so close together in the choppy waters that they collided dozens of times. To tiny Iceland (pop. 219,000), the conflict again became a matter of David's facing down Goliath. But it was also a matter of economic survival...
Rock has its kings and queens, with royal egos to match, but it does not have many who are willing to say, as Guitarist Roy Buchanan does, "Probably the reason I never made it big was because I didn't care whether I made it big." If there is room in rock for a shy, devout, balding man of 36, Buchanan may make it big in spite of himself...
Members of the British royal family rarely give interviews, least of all to publications that are handed out free on airplanes. But there she is, Princess Anne, in the current issue of High Life, British Airways' freebie magazine. Turns out that Anne does not take offense at reporters' endless attentions-even, she says, "those fantastically inventive articles they print in France or Germany, which are so hilarious that no one could take them seriously." She likes to travel, but sightseeing is "purgatory" because "you seldom see anything-either too many people or too many press." With her husband...
...feet, the grey-haired man bent like a peasant to the task of planting rice shoots in the flooded paddy. That might seem plebeian labor for an emperor, but Hirohito of Japan, 75, has always shown deep sympathy for the farming millions of his subjects, and made it a royal duty to take a personal part in opening the rice-planting season. Come fall, the monarch will return to the same paddy in the imperial palace compound and harvest a crop of about 300 lbs., part of it destined for the Ise Grand Shrines as an offering...