Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the King summoned his supporters to a rally at the burial grounds of his royal ancestors near the capital city of Maseru, the Premier set up police roadblocks to turn back the crowds...
...native blanket and conical straw hat, he galloped about his Maryland-size realm on a shaggy pony, enlisting citizens' support in his bid for more control of Lesotho's domestic and foreign policies. Not surprisingly, such politicking alarmed Premier Chief Leabua Jonathan, who saw in the royal actions a plot to overthrow the new constitutional government...
...days later, 60,000 fans - most of them holding tickets - showed up for a soccer game between Thailand and Nationalist China. The stadium, unfortunately, had only 30,000 seats. In the ensuing stampede, dozens were injured, and a Royal Thai Air Force sergeant was trampled to death...
...suggested at the time that Julie go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; she would undoubtedly have been the better actress for it. But Mum ruled that practical experience was best. "We decided," she says, "that a little toughening up as far as the theater world was concerned would be good. So we took her into our act. Let's face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier...
...book in 1608. Ninety years later, having mulled it over, Sir Christopher Wren guessed he was for it. In 1854, Gladstone said: "I cannot doubt it would be of immense advantage," but he decided not to make undue haste. In following decades came a select parliamentary committee, a royal commission, a Paris conference, three colonial conferences, and most recently a special committee of inquiry, all primarily devoted to the subject. Last week, after 358 years of careful thought, the British government formally announced its intention to decimalize the pound. Instead of consisting of 240 pennies (each worth 1.18 U.S. cents...