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...season opened with a downpour outside London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As they emerged from separate limousines, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from...
...showed a photograph of Pope John XXIII wearing a tiara with a triple crown. What is the meaning of the three crowns...
Before undergoing first cuts last week, the show ran for nearly four hours. On-opening night, the white-tied, tiara-heavy audience saw the first-act curtain go down just before 11. the final curtain at 12:25. Reviewers on Toronto's three daily newspapers commented with cautious approval, making the traditional road-critic observation that the musical-drawn from...
Built in 1942 on land reclaimed from Jamaica Bay and what was once a golf course, Idlewild has become a vast, gleaming concrete-and-glass tiara (see color} covering 4,900 acres and representing an investment of $330 million. Much more than merely a big new airport, it typifies a whole new jet age concept: a self-contained airport city, so complete that it has two dramatic societies and an animal-port where anything from parakeets (50? a day) to lions ($5 a day) can be boarded...
Triple Crown Races (CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.). The third tiara is the Belmont Stakes...