Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high point of her Thai sojourn, an occasion that brought together two of the world's best-dressed women, was a royal dinner for 180 given by King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Jackie wore a long white evening gown elaborately stitched in gold, the beautiful queen a traditional gown of Thai embroidered silk in yellow with a matching sabai, or stole. After dinner, the King and Queen suggested that they take a little walk. Knowing that Jackie particularly wanted to see the temple of the Emerald Buddha, the King had ordered the whole palace and temple grounds illuminated. Lights...
...Demands. To Canadian Choreographer Macdonald, 39, who came to Harkness last February after two years as artistic director of the Royal Swedish Ballet, such subject matter is thoroughly proper to dance. "Ballet today is exciting not just because of the dancers," he says, "but because it isn't afraid to leap onstage with a statement on any subject." Bearing out his thesis, Macdonald is now at work on a ballet dealing with violence and ritual killing as an ingrained social phenomenon now and in the past...
...heritage, he has small use for such concepts as "negritude." "Does a tiger feel his tigritude?" he asks. A member of the cultured and sophisticated Yoruba tribe, he was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. He has worked for London's Royal Court Theater as playwright, actor and producer, and taught English literature at the University of Lagos...
...actual performance remains sluggish. And he puts part of the blame on Labor government policies; he complains that "any fool can save the pound by damming the economy." Opting for a far less demanding job, Chambers will leave I.C.I. next spring to become head of London's Royal Insurance...
...parts manufacturer, Frederick C. Matthaei Jr., 42, son of the founder of American Metal Products Co., George B. Kilborne, 37, a Yale classmate of Parsons', and George W. Miller, 43, whom the group tapped to become president of Commonwealth after its takeover. Their acquisitions include banks in Lansing, Royal Oak, Kalamazoo and Coopersville, as well as office buildings in Detroit and Ann Arbor and interests in small business corporations in Detroit and New York. The more they expand, the more irritated Detroit bankers become. But Group Leader Parsons, already a millionaire, says he has no quarrel with anyone. "There...