Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rabbi's courtyard; it duly disappeared and was replaced by a receipt signed by Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said...
LAOS 'Perilous Course' Ever since they set about to reunite their country in the wake of the Geneva Conference three years ago, the royal government of Laos and its Communist-led rebels in the northeastern provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly had been conducting on-again-off-again negotiations (and on-again-off-again war) that nobody seemed to take very seriously. After all, the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, is the half-brother of Communist Boss Prince Souphanouvong, and many of the handful of educated Laotians who make up the government insisted that the whole thing was just...
RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 28--Crown Prince Moulay Hassan today charged Spanish forces with attacking Moroccan territory from the hills of the rebellious colony of Ifni, and ordered the royal army to shoot back...
Portugal's Dictator Oliveira Salazar tolerates the presence of a royal pretender to the Portuguese throne: Dom Duarte Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never...
...pleasant tuning-up hum of the Philharmonia Orchestra faded away and a hush fell over London's Royal Festival Hall. A tall, slightly stooped figure in a frock coat emerged from behind a yellow curtain. Feet dragging, he made his way to the podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...