Word: royalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their martial caste decorating the walls and the reproachful gaze of full-length ancestors in oils staring down on them. Others converted their palaces into hotels. The Rajmata's former kingdom of Gwalior is now a quiet, ordinary part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. The lavish royal guest house is a Girl Scout training center, and the main palace is a museum that charges 300 a head for admission. Many out-of-work princes drifted into the foreign service. Some took a fling at business; the Maharajah of Cooch Behar even organized tiger-hunting safaris, complete with flush...
Into Decline. Under India's terms of independence, the old royal families who governed half the country and one-fourth of its people turned over their kingdoms to the central government in exchange for tax-free pensions and a series of special privileges. The pensions varied all the way from $26 to $665,000 a year, depending on the size of the kingdom; many princes retained most of their accumulated wealth. The privileges included immunity from arrest and civil lawsuit, and retention of old titles, many palaces and estates...
Anachronism of Honor. Concerned about this royal showing, Congress Party leaders called a special meeting after the election and decided to try to hit at the princes by abolishing their privileges and privy purses, which cost the government $6.5 million a year. All that was needed was an amendment to the constitution, which seemed certain to carry in Parliament. "There is no doubt that these privileges and privy purses are an anachronism," said Home Minister Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan. "Do we want this country to remain set in this immobility of 1948 or go ahead...
...succession to the throne, frequently appeared in public with a divorcee who bore him a son while he was still wed to his first wife. Queen Elizabeth, the temporal head of the Church of England, made a concession to the more relaxed morality by deciding to give him royal permission to marry the woman. Even Parliament now eagerly delves into areas that were formerly taboo. Three weeks ago, Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults, and two weeks ago it followed that up with another bill liberalizing the grounds for abortion. Last week a government...
...Vicenzo since has won upwards of 120 tournaments, including the national open championships of Argentina (six times), Brazil (three times), Chile (three times), Jamaica (three times), Panama (twice), Uruguay (twice), Mexico (twice), France (three times), Germany, Holland, Belgium and Spain. On Britain's wind swept par-72 Royal Liverpool Golf Club course two weeks ago, Roberto fired rounds of 70, 71, 67 and 70 to beat Defending Champion Jack Nicklaus by two strokes and add the prestigious British Open title to his collection...