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What finally melted Franco's heart was little eight-day-old Elena Maria Isabel Dominica de Silos, daughter of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, and Greek Princess Sophie, and, most important, Don Juan's first grandchild. With that in mind, Franco allowed the would-be king to return for 36 hours for the christening, then dropped in on the affair and had a rare 20-minute chat with the exile. What did they talk about? Well, Franco has five grandchildren himself...
Britain's honeymooning Princess Margaret, shipmate of Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones on the royal yacht Britannia, was still dreamily island-hopping in the Caribbean amidst calypso rhythms, dusky skins and steel bands. Landing at Dominica, largest of the Windward Islands, Margaret and Tony had hoped to motor about quietly. But the islanders-some 5,000 of them-turned out in force to cheer them and present the princess with a bouquet as wild as her unruly locks. The half-royal couple will return to Britain next week, leaving behind a wistful rumor that Margaret may be the next Governor...
...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...
...four Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada), which are also small, beautiful and backward...
...troublesome characteristic of rarely heard works of famous composers is that there is often a good reason for their obscurity. On Friday night the combined Glee Clubs of Smith and Harvard, assisted by the Bach Society Orchestra, gave Mozart's Vesperae de Dominica its first performance in this country. Unfortunately, it is not one of Mozart's more inspired works, only reaching greatness in a movement interpolated from a later Vespers...