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...acceded on the same day last spring (TIME, May 11). Neither had anything to do with the bickerings; they were away studying at England's Harrow during most of it. In the hot sun at Baghdad airport, they kissed in the Arab fashion, rode off together in a scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases came to Baghdad to pump the hand of the handsome visitor from Jordan. Feisal ordered a five-hour military show for his pistol-toting cousin. At European-style banquets, while diplomats and ministers drank wine, the cousins solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: In the Family | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Governor Christian A. Herter '15 arrived at the Johnson gate, next to Massachusetts Hall. Herter was escorted by scarlet-coated National Lancers of Massachusetts on horseback. This is part of a tradition dating back to the days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts operated the University directly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers Ratify Pusey as 24th President; Conant, Marquand, Pearson Address Alumni | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

...women in the 1,100-year history of England's throne had come to the fresh-faced yet stately young mistress of Buckingham Palace. In storybook raiment, with a storybook prince by her side, she stepped down to the courtyard and entered a coach of scarlet and gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Procession | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...attend the NATO meetings in Paris and to look over U.S. military installations in Europe. At one NATO meeting, he cheerily suggested that everybody take off coats and get down to work, much to the embarrassment of the French representative, who was thereby forced to expose loud, scarlet suspenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man from Detroit | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...dugout canoes. Here the jungle seems to be about to swallow the city's few houses and streets. Charming white temples and graceful stupas, elaborately decorated with legends and characters from the Ramayana relics of India, are everywhere crowded by tall green rustling palms, fragrant frangipani trees and scarlet-blossomed poincianas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: The Celebrated Buddha | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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