Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Washington...
...enough that a plague of locusts threatened some 300,000 of his subjects with starvation, Libya's 65-year-old King Idris himself was plagued with family troubles. In the first place, his wife, Queen Fatima, 40, had given him no son and heir. Then too, the entire royal family was jealous of the trust the old King put in his chief adviser, Ibrahim el-Shalhi, who wanted to marry the King off to his own daughter. Last fall a nephew of the Queen shot the adviser dead...
...Britain, ex-Governess Marion ("Crawfie") Crawford, who parlayed her 16 years' experience with Britain's royal family into a bestseller (The Little Princesses), sorrowfully learned one of the hard facts of journalistic life: it is easier to reminisce than to peer into the future. In her column for London's weekly Woman's Own, Crawfie richly described Queen Elizabeth s and Princess Margaret's appearance at this year's Trooping the Color at the Horse Guards parade ("The young princess had some difficulty in persuading her mount to settle down. But it was done...
VICKERS VISCOUNT, Britain's most successful postwar transport, will soon replace U.S. Convair 240s on short-haul routes on Holland's KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Vickers has sold nine Viscounts worth $11 million to KLM, landed orders for five planes from three U.S. corporations (U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of California, Hughes Tool Co.), thus breaking into the lucrative business-flying field for the first time. Total Viscounts sold to date...
This novel has elephantiasis of the prose glands, but basically it is an anemic little yarn about an English theatrical royal family. Jacy Florister, 27, an ex-child star dangling rebelliously from maternal apron strings, has long wanted to know more about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams...