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Born. To Princess Astrid, 30, comely daughter of Norway's King Olav V, and her commoner husband Johan Martin Ferner, 35, a prosperous Oslo clothier: their first child, a daughter; in Oslo...
Born. To Prince Albert of Liege, 28, heir to the Belgian throne; and Princess Paola, 24: their second child, first daughter; in Brussels. Name (after Prince Albert's mother, the late Queen Astrid ) : Astrid Josephine Charlotte Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie...
...Balenciaga gown and crown jewels, her people liked her best when she donned her nurse's uniform to race to Belgium's floods and recent mine disasters. Today she commands the universal adoration that Belgians have not felt for a Queen since 1935, when their beloved Astrid was killed in a car wreck...
...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...
...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...