Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Kenneth Galbraith complained that the University honored too many Republicans and too few "liberal Democrats." According to the two professors, "No Democratic Governor of the Commonwealth has received an honorary degree for many decades, and no Republican Governor has failed to receive one." With Galbraith playing viceroy in India and Schlesinger glued to the White House TV set, President Pusey may go out on a limb this year and name Gov. Volpe--a Republican...
Nutcracker Man relates to his predecessor as, say, Marlboro Man relates to Viceroy Man. The lines of development are clear: Marlboro Man was a rough, inarticulate and profoundly simple specimen, setting the tone for the advertising in the era known as the Eisenhower Fifties. Viceroy Man is suave, and cultivated, and knows how to talk and drink with Harvard professors be meets in Washington. He is the figure of the Kennedy Sixties...
Fifty years ago her grandfather had been the last British monarch to visit India. Stolid King-Emperor George V had to be reminded by his viceroy to wave to the populace so as to elicit the cheers befitting the occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth...
BESTSELLING CIGARETTE is Pall Mall, according to Printers' Ink survey. Pall Mall overtook Camel, which dropped to No. 2. Salem moved up from seventh in 1959 to sixth, Marlboro from tenth to ninth. The 1960 order: Pall Mall, Camel, Winston, Lucky Strike, Kent, Salem, Chesterfield, L & M, Marlboro, Viceroy...
Lady Diana has a curious way of making real people seem like Waugh characters,* as she does in the cinematic glimpse of life in the Viceregal Lodge at Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...