Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomat may be only a cookie pusher, but the kind of cookies pushed by Indonesia's charge d'affaires in Copenhagen tumbled, not crumbled. Last week Danish police announced that Gustin Santawirja not only ran his country's embassy, until he returned home last August, but was also a procurer on the side...
...when Indonesia's President Sukarno showed up in Copenhagen on an unofficial visit. Amiably, he rounded up some girls for the visiting entourage. So successful was the venture that he decided to supplement his entertainment allowance by running a fulltime poule hall. He teamed up with a Danish national, assembled a stable of 20 women, took a 20% commission from their $50- to $100-a-night earnings. When police sought to question him, he simply claimed diplomatic immunity...
...last August the Danish Foreign...
Giving an outdoor performance in Washington, D.C., puckish Pianist Victor Borge, 54, became the first Danish-born Connecticut resident ever to play a piano on the steps of the Capitol. "It's nice to hear some harmony on Capitol Hill," quipped Borge to an audience sprinkled with Senators and Representatives. "I was in the Far East spreading good will. Then I read the news in the papers, and thought I'd better come home." The show was arranged by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who hoped it would help sell Congress on his pending bill...
...always, many an attempt ended in tragedy. Near the border resort of Hohegeiss, a crowd of Swedish and Danish tourists watched horrified as a man, wheezing with exhaustion, struggled to climb a pole over the barbed wire. Rushing up with guns blazing, Red border guards kept pumping bullets into him even after he dropped to the ground, left the body for two hours in the weeds...