Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down one step to the left to his own gilded chair of state. "My Lords," said Elizabeth, "pray be seated." Then, because she was not yet a crowned Queen, Elizabeth repeated her oath of accession...
...Housemasters decided on uniform 9 p.m. permissions for Saturday night. This rule, however, did not work, since the formal dances began at 8:30 and bands were playing to empty houses for half-an-hour...
Eisenhower himself has picked up more real political experience than many politicians (of the mule variety) get in a lifetime. Not that he started from scratch. When Eisenhower, nearly 62, took off his uniform last June and started campaigning, he had a lifetime of experience in dealing with people, cliques, passions, ideologies and issues. The U.S. Army does not run without politics; the commander in chief of the largest military coalition in history cannot command (and win) without political maneuvering, and the officer charged with transforming an international paper army into reality cannot do that job, as Eisenhower did, without...
Tackle Hank Toepke, sidelined for the Colgate and Dartmouth games with a bad ankle, was not in uniform yesterday and probably will not play against Davidson this Saturday. But Hardy Cox, who missed the Dartmouth contest because of an ankle injury, took a light workout and may play this weekend...
...small (5 ft. 6½ in.), earnest funnyman was born Aaron Chwatt, the son of an immigrant hat blocker. He got the name "Red Buttons" because of his flaming hair-now prematurely grey-and a bellhop uniform he wore on his first comedy job while he was still attending a Bronx high school. Before the surprising success of his new show, Buttons had made some eight or nine guest appearances on TV without causing any particular excitement ("My first spot was on the Milton Berle show four years ago. And now-think of it-I'm playing in competition...