Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Secrets. Nicolson was more at home when the royal family chose him to write the official biography of King George V. The task consumed three years, but he obviously enjoyed it, not only because the assignment was an honor but also because it gave him the opportunity to interview all the members of the royal family. Characteristically, his diary entries during this period bustle with provocative footnotes to history. For example, his interview with the late Queen Mary, who discussed the relations between her husband George and his sons: "She said that the real difficulty had been with...
...Communists' target was the Royal Thai Air Force Base at Udorn, one of five Thai fields from which U.S. fighter-bombers fly daily strikes into North Viet Nam and Communist-held parts of Laos. Udorn, only a few miles from the Mekong River border with Laos, has a complement of 6,000 American airmen, two fighter-bomber squadrons and two tactical reconnaissance squadrons. Like the other Thai bases, it was considered a safe haven; as one U.S. serviceman put it not long ago: "It's a big thing when you don't have...
Enhancing the Text. Three years ago, Ballet Theater's directors decided to go back to its original goals. Two of the company's finest productions have been restaged by Britain's David Blair, a one time principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, who brings to the classics an eye for dramatic consistency. "I don't think that it's very interesting or logical to have half a dozen people all standing around doing the same thing when they are supposedly individuals," he says. "We keep the choreography as it has come down...
...CONTEMPORARY THEATER, Seattle, presents The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Peter Shaffer's spectacle about Pizarro, June 19-July 6, and James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, a fantasy about the domestic life of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, July...
...unions operate in a legal near-vacuum. They are not bound by agreements they sign, are not liable for authorized acts of their officials. Industry-wide bargaining is al most nonexistent, and there are no provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to stall outrageous strikes. Still, the Royal Commission, which was headed by 70-year-old Lord Donovan, a former leader of the dockworkers, rejected proposed legal curbs on wildcat strikes. And it is fair enough to say that as long as the British labor situation remains the way it is, neither devaluation nor any other remedy will...