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...balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Pope Paul spoke forcefully to a group of pilgrims about the "ignoble and blasphemous outrage." Two days later, an outfit called "Catholic Moralists" threw homemade bombs at the Rome residence of the Danish ambassador and left a note calling Denmark "the pigsty of Europe." Meanwhile, French authorities forbade production of the movie near Avignon as planned this autumn...
...Sonder-burg-Glücksburg, who was installed by Russia, France and Britain on the throne in 1863, as King George I. Since Constantine's exile, there has been occasional speculation that he might eventually give up his Roman villa and join his wife's family in Denmark. But, says a friend, "if he moved into a palace in Copenhagen, it would look too much like a permanent exile. He wants to make it look as if he's ready to go back to Athens any time...
Hamlet. (1969) PBS opens its new "Humanities Film Forum" series with director Tony Richardson's cinematic adaptation of his London stage production of the Shakespearian tragedy. Nicol Williamson stars as the Prince of Denmark, portraying Hamlet as an anti-hero in a markedly modern interpretation of the role. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
Glistrup disapproves not only of the way Danish taxes are collected but even more of the way they are spent. Denmark's $8.2 billion budget could be cut by at least one-fifth, he says, and 80% of the civil servants transferred to productive jobs "without harming the socially weak." He proposes closing all Danish embassies abroad, for example, since Denmark really has no independent foreign policy. The Danish army? Disband it, Glistrup advises. "We should replace the general staff and the Ministry of Defense with a Russian-language recording that says 'We surrender...
...every morning at his home north of Copenhagen, takes a swim in his indoor pool, studies papers for a couple of hours, then catches the 5:18 train to town, where he labors on, undisturbed, until his 76 associates and secretaries arrive. His law firm is, in fact, Denmark's largest...