Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communique that followed his visit with Prince Norodom Sihanouk three weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Chester Bowles assured the Royal Cambodian government that "the U.S. will do everything possible to avoid acts of aggression against Cambodia, as well as incidents and accidents which may cause losses and damage to the inhabitants of Cambodia." Sihanouk chose to interpret that as an ironclad promise that U.S. forces in Viet Nam would not cross the Cambodian border under any circumstances-which it was not. Thus he was enraged when, in the midst of a firefight with a Viet Cong unit, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers...
Harold J. Hanham, an expert on 19th century British politics, will be a professor of History. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Hanham is currently a professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. He has written "Elections and Party Management: Politics in the Time of Disraeli and Gladstone...
...Sixty Days were begun with a series of separatist bombings in a wealthy English-speaking district of Montreal, and in an atmosphere of crisis, the new Prime Minister announced the formation of a Royal Commission to investigate French-English relations in Canada. The Commission presented its recommendations a month ago, after more than four years of study. (Pearson's successor will decide on their implementation..) The climax of the Sixty Days came when Pearson's Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, presented a budget so unworkable and confused that its main features were eventually withdrawn altogether...
...aerial and a leather-covered steering wheel. It has a bull horn that has already caused mumbles in the Noise Abatement Society. Charles will keep the car at Sandringham House for use on weekends and vacations from Cambridge, 50 miles away. The university, less impressed than insurance men by royal prerogative, will not let him keep a car on campus until...
...really sense their friendliness even if you don't understand the language," gurgled Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, the reigning Miss Universe and a girl well adapted to overcoming language barriers everywhere. After flying into Japan to hustle graciously for Royal Crown Cola, the company that sponsors her, Sylvia donned a long silk kimono and obi for a round of tradition al tea drinking. Her first pass showed a clear Western influence as she knocked back the whole cup in one gulp, but she was soon taking it down in the prescribed three sips. "It's fabulous," said Sylvia...