Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than the little Greek princeling who was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed...
...have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food is cheap and abundant. Stores are full of Russian refrigerators and Danish kitchen equipment. The battle-torn Csespel Island steel mills are rebuilt and going full blast. In fact, Hungary has probably made greater strides in rebuilding in the year since the revolution than in all the ten years before...
...independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain's Princess Maud, and dedicated, like her brother...
...Russian navy has historically been handicapped by geography-graphically illustrated this summer when a cruiser and two destroyers had to make the long and circuitous passage via the Dardanelles, Gibraltar and the Danish narrows simply to transfer from the Black Sea to the Baltic fleet...
Died. Peter Freuchen, 71, Danish adventurer, explorer, $80,000 TV quiz winner (The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge), novelist (Ivalu, Eskimo), autobiographer (It's All Adventure, Vagrant Viking), whose Eskimo-life reporting is considered first-rate popularized anthropology; of a heart attack; at Elmendorf Air Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Irascible, impetuous, cantankerous, big (6 ft. 4 in.) Peter Freuchen, descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live...