Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fertile river valleys and the seats of government. But the tribal groups in the hills and remote jungle have never knuckled under to any central government. The Kha of the south still offer up human sacrifices at their marriage feasts, traditionally choosing as victim the grandfather of the bride...
...first buildings attacked and smashed was a movie house advertising a film of the royal wedding. Some in the marching crowds cried "Vive la République!" interspersed with chorus after chorus of the Marseillaise, which in Belgium has a distinctly revolutionary, antimonarchical flavor. Baudouin and bride heard none of this as they stepped out of the plane at the airport. "Vive le Roi! Vive la Reine!" cried the small welcoming delegation. Then, under heavy escort, their limousine bore the royal couple through the riot-torn city to the palace...
...trudged up to the balcony of the Metropolitan Opera to listen to how the professionals did it. Although he has been composing vocal works ever since his Curtis Institute days, Kastle attempted only one adult opera before Deseret-a one-acter titled The Swing, having to do with a bride's premarital jitters. He is now at work on another opera on an American theme, laid in the 1700s. Like his other efforts, it will be resolutely melodic. "I have always felt free," says he, "to use a C major chord when I want...
Baudouin, King of the Belgians, like many a conservative bridegroom, was beginning to discover a thing or two about at least one of his bride's relatives. As Baudouin honeymooned last week in Andalusia with his winsome new Spanish Queen, her brother, "Count" Jaime ("Call me Jimmy") de Mora y Aragón, 35, was giving in to what he calls his "little weakness" - the love of notoriety...
Reclining in pink pajamas on a vast bed in Paris' Hotel George V, Count Jimmy confessed he had missed Fabiola's wedding because the Spanish government (reportedly at the request of the bride) refused him an exit permit as he tried to board a plane for Brussels...