Word: households
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known her since childhood leaned his arm on a mantel in Her Majesty's presence. "Are you tired?" she asked. He replied: "No, ma'am. Why?" Said Elizabeth: "Because I think you should stand up straight when you are talking to me." She runs her royal household strictly-and with a clear awareness of the consequences of her acts. Last week she chose a new equerry: Ghana's Major Joseph Edward Michel, 52, the first Negro ever to join royal inner circles...
...personalities and places they will visit. The baggage was mostly packed and at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia, and all that was left was to kiss the children goodbye. As part of a last weekend at home, Elizabeth rode out on her horse Imp to salute the Household Guards in the ancient ceremony of Trooping the Color...
...most comfortable ways of life in the world. With prices rising, beef consumption is down 40%, capital district retail sales 60%, attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital goods to raise production has depressed the peso, which hit an alltime low of no a dollar a fortnight ago before climbing back to 86. But the encouragement to export, and the discouragement of imports, is getting results. In the first four...
...urge to diversify has led companies into some of the unlikeliest fields, but last week Manhattan's Sterling Drug Inc. seemed ready to top them all. The biggest U.S. producer of household drugs (Bayer Aspirin, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Drisdol vitamins, etc.) was going into the sewage-disposal business with a radical new process, developed by Sterling Engineer Frederick J. Zimmermann, which is cheaper and more efficient than current methods. With one pilot plant already set up in Norway, Sterling has contracts to build an $11.9 million disposal plant for the city of Chicago, a second...
Thus in Manhattan's City Center last week, a 1,200-year-old dance ritual stirred to life. Occasion: the first appearance outside Japan of the Musicians and Dancers of the Japanese Imperial Household...