Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christiansborg Palace, home of the Folketing (Parliament), the 18-year-old princess was formally introduced to the Council of State, and with a gold pen signed an oath to uphold the Danish constitution. Later, as she drove home in a royal coach, crowds jammed the sidewalks to cheer her. They called again and again for her to show herself on the balcony of the royal palace. Flag-waving schoolboys swung into a popular song that ends with the words "because she is so young and pretty," and the venerable Sixtus Harbor Battery boomed out a 21-gun salute...
...Built by Danish slave traders in 1661, it became an official residence of the British Governor General, then Nkrumah...
...Crostic), a lawyer's avidity for meticulous briefing, and relentless persistence. Elected president of Lutheran World Relief after World War II, he ranged Europe on a mammoth repair job that was just as much spiritual as material. "It wasn't just a question of relief," he explains. "Danish and Norwegian Lutherans hated German Lutherans; they felt contempt for Swedish Lutherans. No one would talk to anyone else. At first we got nowhere. But at the 1947 convention of the Lutheran World Federation we surrounded every anti with several pros so he would have to talk to them...
...Like Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists of a refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist who has just refused to go on helping to make the basalt bomb. Each in his own way understands something of Morel's strange passion...
...Cinemacaroon Brigitte (And God Created Woman) Bardot, who won a 1957 Victoire (France's Oscar), proved the infinite ingenuity of the French in inventing new human relationships. She offered to be the godmother of a baby girl born to her ex-husband, Director Roger Vadim, and a Danish model one day after he and Brigitte were divorced...