Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general astonishment, he persuaded the French government to authorize him, at the age of 22, to conduct an expedition to an unexplored area of Cambodia, where he had deduced that 1,000-year-old Khmer statues still lay undiscovered along the ancient Royal Way to Angkor Vat. In 1923, he and his first wife, Clara Goldschmidt, plunged into Cambodia's jungles, found the statues, and lugged them out on oxcarts. The French colonial authorities promptly impounded them as historical monuments, and put Malraux on trial for trying to remove them. His wife rushed back to France, succeeded in getting...
...merchant navy, the Royal Marines (he was twice torpedoed off the Dutch coast), the Irish Guards (wounded three times at Anzio...
...Zahir Shah rode solemnly through Kabul's dusty, unpaved streets to the Shora-e-Milli (House of Representatives). There he urged his acquiescent Parliament to support the revolts of the Pathan tribes across the border in Pakistan, who are flesh and blood of King Zahir's own royal family. The British, in their old boundary-drawing days, had once separated the fierce Pathans (or Pakhtoons) from Afghanistan. Since the British never subdued them, say Pathan agitators, Pakistan has no right to claim their lands as a legacy from the British. "Pakhtoonistan," King Zahir told his Parliament last week...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Sixten Ehrling conducts the Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra in the second act of Wagner's Die Walk...
...ROYAL LITTLE, who wants to put half of his Textron American, Inc. assets in non-textile diversification, is moving into another new field. For $18 million, Textron will take over Western Union's international cable system to Cuba, England, the Azores, Spain and Italy. The sale solves a big problem for Western Union, which was ordered to give up its international operations when it bought out Postal Telegraph twelve years ago, has been looking for a buyer ever since...