Word: crowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year Jordan's King Hussein wrote in eloquent defense of his sometimes wayward brother, Crown Prince Mohammed; Kenya's Tom Mboya wrote to amplify his role in the London Conference on Africa. On the weighty subject of nuclear controls, former AEC Member Thomas E. Murray stated the case for continued testing, and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey argued in rebuttal that the issue was not technological but political...
...lowly art of bookkeeping, King Saud of Saudi Arabia is no match for his more cultivated younger brother, the lean and able Crown Prince Feisal. Two years ago, after Saud's munificent handouts to himself and some 300 assorted princes of the realm had brought even oil-rich Saudi Arabia deeply into debt, an angry family council forced the King to hand over the effective reins of government to Feisal. Under the guidance of experts on loan from the International Monetary Fund, Feisal proceeded to balance the budget by severe maneuvers, even slashing the allowances of pampered princelings...
...work of a "small, isolated group of officers." According to Haile Selassie, the rebels' own proclamations demanding an end to oppression and poverty amounted to "approval of the program of progress in education, health and social welfare that we have been implementing all the time." His son Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had broadcast for the rebels "at the point of a gun," according to an official communique. To emphasize that he was back in charge, the Emperor ordejred the bullet-riddled corpse of a rebel chieftain hanged in a public square...
After King Henry VIII broke with Rome, the church at Kells was surrendered to the Crown, but the book somehow got into the hands of a Dubliner named Gerald Plunket, who is believed to have been a distant relative of the last abbot. Later it was acquired by Anglican Bishop James Ussher, commissioned by James I to collect the historic treasures of the church. On Aug. 24, 1621, the good bishop duly noted that he had "reckoned the leaves of the booke and found them to be in number 344." When Ussher died, the manuscript was turned over to Trinity...
...royal elk hunt, the Prince succeeded in bagging more attractive quarry. In Stockholm, Birgitta's widowed mother, Princess Sibylla, announced the royal engagement last week. Johann Georg may want to brush up on his fencing; only four days before the betrothal, Birgitta won a Swedish national fencing crown...