Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expertise to the World cover story. Also lending special knowledge on the research side was the Canada staff's Beth Cattley, who grew up at the other end of Canada (in Fredericton, N.B.), first got to know and love the West when she trained there with the Royal Canadian Air Force (she came out with the rank of flying officer). For an outsider's impressions of the West's wonders, World Editor Edward Hughes sent Chicago Correspondent Ed Shook on a 4,000-mile trek through the booming prairies and mountains...
...part of the celebrations, 2,500 cities and towns have adopted civic projects that range from Ottawa's plan to plant 70,000 flowering crab apple trees to a Japanese garden in Lethbridge, Alta., that expects to get a school of royal carp from Emperor Hirohito's moat. Athletically, Canada will be host to no fewer than 17 international competitions, from snowshoeing (in Ottawa) to water skiing (in Sherbrooke, Que.) to the Pan American games in Winnipeg...
...important post of "curator" of the Doge's art treasures. From then on, his reputation spread from northern Italy to northern Europe, until he became one of the most celebrated artists of the century. By the time he died, in 1770, he could boast frescoes and ceilings adorning royal palaces from Germany to Spain...
...brush that is wicked and bitter. But this portrait is of a man that Goya respected and admired. Clearly, he would never win a prize for handsomeness, but there is a sensitivity in his eyes and warmth in his face that is altogether captivating." One of the few royal portraits by Goya outside of Spain, the painting's near $75,000 price tag, says Lee, provoked "great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth" among his board. But he more than made up for it with the Ribera-found hanging in a dark museum staircase in Geneva, Switzerland-which...
...training in Lightnings for the last two years." Besides, the King of the Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present? "A state secret," said the King...