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...Army airstrip near Coburg, Germany, descended a Fieseler-Storch helicopter, and out stepped two young men in work clothes, followed by two well-dressed young women. In excellent English they explained that they had refused to join the Czech Communist Party and wanted refuge. The two men had worked for the Schiidlings-bekamp-fungsinstitut (Institute for Fighting Vermin), spraying plants with DDT from the copter. Instead of finishing their DDT run, they simply headed west. One of the girls had also worked for the institute, the other was just a friend. No romances, they said...
Outside the chamber, one politician even ungallantly attacked the King's wife. Punning on the fact that during the war Leopold resumed the old German family title of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the speaker referred to pretty Mary Liliane as the "Princess of Sexe Coburg Gotha...
...Fruits & Flowers." Not only in Le Pot but all over Belgium, people were excitedly thrashing out the question of whether the King-tall, blond Leopold-Philippe -Charles -Albert -Meinrad -Huber-tus-Marie-Miguel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, otherwise known as Leopold III-should come back from exile to resume the throne. It is the overriding issue in the June 26 elections, and by last week the campaign was hot and ferocious. The Christian Social Party (Catholic) favored Leopold's return. The Socialists and Communists were against it. Labor threatened a general strike if Leopold returned...
Thereafter he lived a quiet, secluded life in Coburg among his flowers, birds, and collection of unset precious stones. At Coburg, last week, 87-year-old Ferdinand of Bulgaria died...
Died. Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 87, ex-Czar of Bulgaria; in Coburg, Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS...