Word: astride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making their Bayreuth debuts in Parsifal. And appearing as Venus in a new production of Tannhäuser was St. Louis-born Mezzo Soprano Grace Bumbry, the first Negro ever...
Images & Amulets. In the Royal Laotian Army, the soldiers were small, laughing men. floppy as rag dolls in their outsized American fatigues, wearing socks of rice about their chests. In five weeks, they had advanced exactly eight miles along Astrid Highway, a dirt scar grandly named to commemorate the visit years ago by a Belgian queen. They swam in mountain streams, stole pigs, got drunk on rice whisky, and occasionally fired their U.S.-supplied 105-mm. howitzers in the general direction of the enemy. (They disliked the idea of shooting at anybody with a rifle, since it is not permissible...
...training operation from headquarters in Vientiane-where the suburbia-like U.S. colony has taken on a stripped-for-action look since the evacuation of 200 dependents to Bangkok seven months ago. West Point's "retired" Major Eleazar Parmly does his best to help the government drive along Astrid Highway. In the hill country, Central Intelligence Agency operatives roam, dickering for the support of tribal chieftains...
...Bishop of Oslo had refused to marry her to the divorced commoner, but last week Norway's Princess Astrid, 28, followed a torchlight procession into a small, red-brick Lutheran church outside town to wed prosperous Haberdasher Johan Martin Ferner, 33, and to be read out of royalty. The procession, which was led through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father...
...long time, Norway's nautical Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner...