Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next week, the St. Lawrence Seaway.* Beyond that, the tour arrangers' purpose was to let Elizabeth see "something of the life of the average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport this week, she will whisk into an itinerary that, for all the press of excited planning...
Things have been going from bad to worse for a long time in the once great kingdom of Spain. Left behind by the great revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, Spain moved from feudalism to confused socialism to fascism through one of history's most destructive civil wars. After that came the mismanagement and the narrow imagination of Francisco Franco's regime. Spain was near economic disaster when U.S. aid began to arrive...
Needless Worry. By last week, Garvey had just about finished this season's additions to his private grain-storage kingdom, now the world's biggest with a capacity of 150 million bushels. The U.S. Department of Agriculture pays him $14.7 million a year to store surplus wheat, corn and grain sorghums bought from his and other farms. Soon after the harvesting gets under way this month, the big 1959 crop will be piled on top of the two-year U.S. surplus already owned or under loan by the Agriculture Department (1.2 billion bushels...
...Soviet proposals are based on the assertion that German reunification is not a present-day problem, and can therefore be left until later. Nor is it a problem within the jurisdiction of the Big Four . . . The draftsmen of the Potsdam Treaties-U.S., Soviet Union and United Kingdom-would have been extremely surprised if they had been told that things would work out this way. Did they not point out very clearly that the peace treaty must be concluded with an all-German government? In fact, how could they possibly have imagined any other solution...
Concubines & Captives. The kingdom on the shores of the Black Sea was nothing special-a minor satellite of the Roman Empire, to which it paid tribute in return for protection. But its young king had grand ideas, first of an independent state, then of empire. Choosing a moment when Rome's legions were preoccupied in Africa and in Gaul, Mithradates built a fleet, gathered an army, and in ten years swept from the northern shore of the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the fringe of ancient Greece. Naturally enough, the conqueror was indignant when his wife-and-sister...