Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was all, but it marked the first time that Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, 70, had been invited to a royal function in the 30 years since the Duke, as Edward VIII, had abdicated his throne to marry the nonroyal divorcee. The ceremony over, the Queen left for the Derby at Epsom, and the Windsors flew home-to Paris...
...first call at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the museum's trustees and Time Inc. jointly sponsored a reception attended by some 700 members of New York's business, publishing and art communities. By happy coincidence, the museum was exhibiting a 5,000-year panorama of royal objets d'art and artifacts entitled "In the Presence of Kings," to which the young monarch presented an exquisite 18th century gold sword. "The Thai people are a fighting people," said Bhumibol. "We have kept our liberty and independence for hundreds of years. We are not militant. We just...
...Howard Walter Florey, President of the Royal Society since 1960, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Chain of Germany and Fleming of England for the preparation of penicillin in concentrated form...
London hasn't known such excitement since 1901, when Edward VII discovered that Queen Victoria had overstocked on fine sherry (he preferred champagne) and ordered 5,000 bottles from the royal cellar put up for auction. Reviving a pleasant pre-World War II custom, London's leading auction houses have recently added vintage wine to their stock in trade. It has turned out to be a bonanza. Before the year is out, Sotheby's and Christie's expect to move more than $1,000,000 in vintage wine, and prices for rare 100-and 200-year...
Mumford finds his devil and feels his great passion as he confronts the "mega-machine"-political, economic, bureaucratic, royal powers organized into vast enterprises. He is slightly hysterical in denouncing the U.S. military establishment as a megamachine and "the minds now in charge of [it] have already proved as open to ... corrupt fantasies and psychotic breakdowns as those of the Bronze Age kings." The myth of the machine is based on a belief that the megamachine is "absolutely irresistible and ultimately beneficial" as well as beyond resistance. Not so, says Mumford. The benefits of the Machine Age are a fraud...