Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary General of the Royal Court Amman, Jordan...
...tangled mass of tubing, disks and light bulbs unveiled before a packed meeting of the Royal Society of scientists in London looked for all the world like an outsize example of abstract sculpture. In fact, it was a precise piece of technical art. It was a model of the hemoglobin molecule, the vital constituent of blood corpuscles, and it was the result of nearly 30 years of effort by Cambridge University Molecular Biologist Max Perutz...
Died. Sir Herbert Read, 74, poet, critic and catholic thinker; of cancer; in Stonegrave, England. An outspoken pacifist prior to World War I, Read nonetheless joined the Royal Army in 1915, won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for heroism in the trenches. He preferred the romantic poets when everyone from Hemingway to T. S. Eliot was joining the Lost Generation, and explained abstract art when its meaning eluded many...
...manpower and expense, Ray's trail seemed to grow progressively colder. Then, on June 1, came the first big break. At the U.S.'s request, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been checking passport mug shots for the slippery suspect. After assiduously studying about 300,000, they spotted the face with the box-tipped nose...
...Royal Henley Regatta is famouts in international rowing for the top-light crews it attracts here, and for its tradition-laden gala festivities. Doughty old gentlemen, biazered in their school colors, return by the thousands here to watch the shells race up Henley's narrow, twisting course on the Thames River...