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Word: scepters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ethel Merman and Larry Blyden play a landlady and her tenant who conspire to steal a $2,000,000 jeweled scepter once wielded by Louis XIV. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...costumes, traditionally Early Elizabethan, became instead Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Grimm for Grownups | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...engineer who seriously insists to his employees that he wants "work to be fun" -and sets something of an example by putting in an 8:30-to-6 day, rarely taking work home at night or on weekends. But he knows how to wield both the ax and the scepter-and he has found enough time in ordinary work days to wield both so well that the once-slumbering Westinghouse has leaped to life. When he took over after the resignation of the late Mark Cresap, says Burnham, "I didn't have to think long about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Life in an Old Giant | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Instead of an episcopal staff, Makarios, 51, carries a kingly scepter, and he signs all his documents in red ink. These are not the personal eccentricities of the only cleric to govern a sovereign nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orthodoxy: His Beatitude the President | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Married. Dorian Leigh, 44, queen of U.S. fashion models until she passed the scepter to her younger sister, Suzy Parker; and Iddo Ben-Gurion, sometime playwright, no kin to Israel's former Premier; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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