Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stability. They are reshaping their economic policies in hopes of persuading free-spending consumers to buy less, borrow less, save more. Since October, Belgium, France, Sweden, The Netherlands and Britain have increased their bank interest rates. France has also clamped some price controls on food and manufactured goods, and Denmark has placed a 9%-sales tax on most nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that such measures may brake Europe's boom too hard, but political leaders insist that drastic action...
...breakdown on Bobby's loans: Beckley National Bank, Beckley, W. Va., $10,000; Suburban Trust Co., Hyattsville, Md., $10,100; First National Bank of South Carolina, Denmark, S.C., $13,238; McLachlen Banking Corp., Washington, $16,000; State Bank & Trust Co., Columbia, S.C., $25,000; National Bank of Washington, $28,000; Fidelity Investment Co., Washington, $40,600; the Small Business Administration, $54,400; District of Columbia National Bank, Washington, $135,000; American Security & Trust Co., Washington, $223,000; American National Bank, Silver Spring, Md., $262,000; First National Bank in Dallas, $471,000; Fidelity National Bank & Trust Co., Oklahoma City...
Bearded Return. Descended from Denmark's royal House of Glücksburg, which took over the Greek throne in 1863, Paul did not have a drop of Hellenic blood in his veins. Throughout his youth, Greece's chaotic politics periodically sent the young prince into exile. Between 1923 and 1935, he slipped back into republican Greece just once, disguised by a thick black beard and posing as a deck hand on a friend's yacht...
...whose Center Union coalition won a landslide victory over Karamanlis' Conservatives last month. A tall, athletic youth who won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, Constantine can rely for some time on sympathy for his father and the good feeling engendered by his impending marriage next January to Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie to facilitate his task. But ultimately Constantine can calm Greece's latent antimonarchist feelings only by calling, like his father, on the motto of his royal house: "My power is the love of my people...
...often sat in when his father talked with government ministers. Tall, lean, and athletic, he won an Olympic Games yachting gold medal in 1960, becoming the first Greek Olympic winner in half a century. Last year Constantine became engaged to his cousin, 17-year-old Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, whom he will marry next January. "Our engagement was sudden, not planned beforehand by our parents," he said. "It was the first time in my life I took a decision without asking my father." King Paul's operation came four days after Papandreou achieved a smashing triumph...