Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Something of the Heart." West Point last week was a place for remembering. One day the mist clung low toward Constitution Island, where General Washington's men laid the two iron chains across the Hudson that kept the Royal Navy out of Highland waters, and white clouds puffed and scudded like shellbursts around the big rock cliffs. Along with about 800 other ex-cadets, the President marched in the traditional alumni parade, slow-paced at 60 steps to the minute so that the older men could keep up. Watching over the parade was the academy's oldest living...
...List, rewarding 2,000 British and Commonwealth subjects, but the choice was largely the concern of her elected ministers, who operate on the principle that what is good for the nation is good for the Queen's list. Only in the arts is the carefree caprice of the royal prerogative sometimes to be seen. The caprices made the headlines, but the top honors went to the most staunchly established pillars of a solvent society: ¶Baronies (with the right to be addressed as "Lord") went to Unilever Board Chairman Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, ex-M.P. and Bank Director Ralph...
Glowing with holiday anticipation, Britain's Prince Charles, 6, and his sister, Princess Anne, 4, with their pet Corgis waddling glumly beside them, entered Euston station to board a train that took them to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for Whitsuntide. At week's end, the royal children were caught at Balmoral by Britain's railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...little pre-putt whistle to relieve the tension of the final round of the British Amateur golf championship. It was enough. Unruffled by the rain and hail that blew off the Irish Sea, Conrad staved off England's Alan Slater and won the match on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's links...
...create the splendor of Etruria, the largest collection of Etruscan art ever assembled was on exhibit last week in Milan's Royal Palace. Sixteen rooms were needed to show 422 pieces dating from the 8th to the ist century B.C. They were drawn from 43 museums and private collections. They fit together into a fresh and fascinating picture of a civilization which, Roman Historian Livy wrote, "filled not only the earth but also the sea for the whole length of Italy, from the Alps to the Straits of Messina...