Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peter Kane Jr., 45, is a familiar figure around Honolulu. For the past 14 years he has been a saxophone player in the municipal Royal Hawaiian Band, and in his gleaming white uniform he is a sight to see as the band goes marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the fattest member of the band. Last year, after a vacation and a carefree feast of poi,* Peter waddled back to band practice fatter than ever. He measured 5 ft. 7 in. vertically, 4 ft. 8 in. around the middle, and tipped the freight scales at 355 glorious pounds. Eying...
Opposition in the North. To curb I.R.A. terrorism, Northern Ireland has a Royal Constabulary of 3,000 regulars and a Special Constabulary of 11,000 volunteers, mostly farmers and shopkeepers. More perhaps than at any time previously, Northern Ireland seems determined to resist union by force. The country's 500,000 Protestants cite the Republic's 1937 Constitution, which gives the Roman Catholic Church "a special position . . . as the guardian of the faith," as evidence that in a united Ireland they would be a religious minority, and subject to pressure, if not persecution. They are supported...
They would form a third generation of fighters whose appeal to the romantics has often kept the serious from taking them seriously. During the "Troubles"-the insurrections against British rule in 1918-21-I.R.A. gunmen so skillfully harassed the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British "Black and Tans" that Britain finally settled with the Irish Republican leaders for an independent government of the 26 southern counties (Irish Free State), retaining its hold only on the six counties of the north.* The I.R.A. never accepted this partition. Its continued agitation so embarrassed government leaders that President Cosgrave outlawed...
...heard of the I.R.A. until last year, when a new generation of young Irishmen joined its secret ranks, thirsting for adventure and impatient of their political leaders' repeated assurances that partition can be abolished "by statesmanship, not force." Their first exploit was to raid the barracks of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Armagh, Northern Ireland, where they seized 300 guns. Shortly afterwards I.R.A. men broke into the projection rooms of two cinemas in Southern Ireland and forced the operators to flash slides on the screens proclaiming: "Join the I.R.A. We have the guns now." Hundreds joined, but the I.R.A...
...bobbysoxer. A trifle puzzled by the fuss raised over her sudden departure, she later explained that the trip was inspired not by less love of Hollywood but more love of Sweden-and she will return to the U.S. next month. Her urgent mission: to see her fiancé, a Royal Swedish Air Force lieutenant, and to tell her papa, an Upsala businessman who frowns on beauty contests, what this crazy Miss Universe business is all about...