Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diana by Louis Gerard, a Paris jeweler who sponsored the polo benefit on behalf of Birthright, a charity for unborn children. After a press report describing the (pounds)10,000 gift appeared on Diana's 24th birthday, a palace spokesman swiftly announced, "Given the fact that members of the royal family do not accept gifts of this nature, it has been agreed with the owner that it be auctioned for Birthright." Gerard insisted that the whole affair was much ado about almost nothing. Said he: "To us it is like giving a bouquet of flowers." To some of us, anyway...
Internal terrorism also made headlines around the world last week. In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a car bomb exploded, killing 75 people and injuring 100. In Katmandu, capital of the remote Himalayan nation of Nepal, five bombs exploded at the royal palace and government buildings, killing seven people and wounding 240. The explosions came a day after King Birendra declared that he would thwart any "attempt to undermine peace and order." In London on Sunday, police set up cordons after a bomb was discovered in a hotel across the street from Buckingham Palace...
Meanwhile, evidence of foul play mounted. The Air India flight, whose final ) destination was Bombay, had stopped in Montreal to pick up passengers. While it was taking on baggage there, dogs trained to sniff out explosives began barking. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police subsequently confiscated three "suspicious" pieces of luggage after electronic scanners detected metal inside the bags. The luggage was examined, but no explosives were found...
...sudden, a product that might have been taken for granted is alive." Concurs Dyson: "It generates electricity. We are having fun, trying to draw attention to make it all bubbling and effervescent. Let's face it, it is hype. It is the nature of the product." Even tiny Royal Crown has been drawn into the battle. "Does it leave you feeling flat?" an RC ad asks of new Coke. "Pick yourself up, there is a cola to turn to. RC Cola...
...gloomy comic overtones of a Graham Greene novel. The last 68 soldiers of the U.S. peacekeeping force were leaving Grenada, accompanied by Jeeps, weapons and their mascot, an island mutt named Butch. As a tropical rainstorm poured down on the Cuban-built Point Salines airport last week, the Royal Grenadian Police band bravely played The Star-Spangled Banner, and Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize presided over a truncated farewell ceremony from the back of his sedan...