Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Rescue. At election time next year, Gorton will have one big factor going for him in hardy, hero-loving Australia. Flying with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, he was shot down in the Pacific in 1942, lived for days on turtle eggs and fish until his rescue, then went through painful plastic surgery for injuries he had received when his face "got mixed up with the instrument panel." As he sailed home at last on leave, his boat was torpedoed, and he spent another day and a night on a raft, chest-deep in water...
Apart from their rank in the royal household (just above St. James's Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged...
Though he is not quite in the class of that other royal karate expert, Greece's black-belted King Constantine, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón is good enough to have earned a brown belt, first class, and proud enough of it to invite Madrid photographers to take a look. The occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become...
...Wanted: Royal Silence. At that point, the hardliners, who are led by Colonel Ioannis Iadas, the chief of internal security, overruled Premier Papadopoulos and scaled down the dimensions of the amnesty. Some 2,500 political prisoners remained in custody, including the hard-core Communists on the prison islands in the Aegean Sea and Leftist Composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek), who, according to Papadopoulos' own words at the press conference, was to have benefited from the amnesty: "He will even write a song for the revolution...
...amnesty and its announcement of a plebiscite on the new constitution by September. Before they let him return, the hard-liners want the King to understand that he no longer has the power to either approve or disapprove of the government's actions, and must learn to keep royal silence...