Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the next few weeks may prove crucial in determining whether the Sadat initiative can be rescued and Sadat can survive politically. For the second year in a row, an international financial consortium made up of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several European countries has agreed to a multibillion-dollar aid package covering Egypt's foreign-currency needs. Though that will allow Sadat to import enough wheat to keep his people fed, they still hunger for the peace-borne prosperity he has led them to expect. Says one White House official...
Rainier himself broke off a six-year liaison with a French actress named Gisele Pascal to marry Grace-a wedding boycotted by European royalty, who disapproved of the bricklayer's daughter from Philadelphia. And Caroline's grandmother Princess Charlotte-known long ago as the "Madcap Princess of Monaco"-made headlines when she ran off with an Italian physician...
...regime and the people invested an enormous amount of pride in the preparations for the huge and complicated tournament (games were played at two sites in Buenos Aires and in four provincial cities). Somewhat to the surprise of some European journalists, who came expecting blood in the streets and confusion and incompetence in the arrangements, the great soccer carnival was run with efficiency, and the prevailing mood was one of warm hospitality. A foreigner walking through the swarming center of Buenos Aires was in danger of being danced with, and no visitor could escape being asked by young schoolgirls...
...entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably...
DIED. Jens Otto Krag, 63, twice Prime Minister of Denmark, whose personal crusade for European unity culminated in his country's vote to join the European Community in 1972; of a heart attack; in Jutland, Denmark. An economist and a Social Democrat, Krag became a Cabinet minister at 33, Prime Minister at 47. After Danes voted to join the Common Market, he shocked them by abruptly resigning. Said he: "The time I have used talking to newsmen I will now use for reading...