Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michiko Shoda, which ripened shyly on the tennis courts of Tokyo, a love match after all? Cruelly thwacking the charming legend, a spokesman for the imperial household told the astounded Diet that nothing so silly as affection had a part in the troth-pledging; plain, old-fashioned parental bride-picking had done the trick. "The engagement of the Crown Prince was not the result of unthinking love," said the spokesman, adding obscurely, "I have observed the Prince and was compelled to admire his mature and deliberate way of thinking, regarding his marriage...
...bride wore lace and a Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
...idealistic Fidel Castro was aboard. Cuban gunboats intercepted the rebels and Castro swam three miles to shore, his Tommy gun still on his back. He turned to law, defended a few friends in political trouble, a few farmers evicted from their plots; he honeymooned in New York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning of March 10, 1952. Fulgencio Batista-who had been Cuba's behind-the-scenes ruler for some ten years-seized Cuba by army coup. Castro, a candidate for Congress in the elections that...
...ancient custom, a Japanese fiancé seals the engagement by buying the bride. Last week Crown Prince Akihito made a small investment (two fish, five rolls of white silk, six bottles of sake), officially sealed his troth to Michiko Shoda, who then knuckled down to the weary task of studying the archaic imperial wedding lore under Palace Ritualist Osanaga Kanroji. His bride in hand, the prince was free to join his parents. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagoko, at a heady gala: the annual poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka...
...Pennsy sounded like a bride left at the church. Said President James M. Symes: "I am disappointed." U.S. railmen have known for some time that the Pennsy is more anxious to merge than the Central, which has had its doubts about managing the $5.6 billion behemoth that would be formed by a merger. Meanwhile the seven smaller roads-Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, New York, Chicago & St. Louis, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western-that had huddled in October to discuss what to do in the face of a Central-Pennsy merger also dropped their own merger talks...