Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Trianon, a mile and a half from the vast palace of Versailles, was built as a royal hideaway. Ordered by the Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1687, it was a delight in pink and green Languedoc marble and, for all its 70 rooms, was considered intimate by a King's standards at that time. Even royal princes had to ask permission to visit. "Delicious gardens!" exclaimed that great collector of court gossip, the Duc de Saint-Simon. And in Louis XIV's day, the gardens did not stop at the doors; his mistress, Madame de Maintenon, liked...
...both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and everybody figures that the sport of kings is due for another coronation. But the last horse to win U.S. racing's Triple Crown was Citation in 1948-and the less said the better about his attempts to prolong the royal line at stud. Pretenders still keep popping up: Tim Tarn in 1958, Carry Back in 1961, Northern Dancer in 1964. What does them...
...even his royal name could help Kauai King win a Triple Crown last week. Owner Mike Ford must have figured that the Belmont might be too tough for his colt, because he didn't even bother to pay the $100 nominating fee. He changed his mind after Kauai King won last month's Derby and Preakness. By then, entries for the Belmont had closed, so Ford had to pay a penalty of $5,000 to get his horse into the race...
...Kampala, appealed to Secretary-General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...
...weekly antiwar message across the country from Detroit's Station WJR. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Father Charles Coughlin, 74, silenced by Edward Cardinal Mooney in 1940 at F.D.R.'s behest, held a press conference at his rectory in Royal Oak, Mich., and allowed: "I understand more about charity than I did 40 years ago. Who am I to throw stones? Now it is to me simply: my President, right or wrong...