Word: ferdinand
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Saturday Night Competition. But there was also time for home life. Lyndon and Lady Bird celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary at dinner with some 20 close friends in the White House. By presidential order, White House Pastry Chef Ferdinand Louvat had whipped up a twelve-pound sponge cake, sprinkled with sugar wedding bands. Inlaid in the frosting were nine of the President's favorite photos from the family scrapbook, including a honeymoon picture taken in the floating gardens of Xochimilco, near Mexico...
...opponents. Already he is swapping invective with the Nacionalistas, although election day is not due until November 1965, and the opposition has yet to select a candidate. Two of the chief contenders for the nomination are former Liberal Party members-Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez and Senate President Ferdinand Marcos-both of whom broke from Diosdado Macapagal after his triumphant election. They are well aware that, until now, not one Philippine President has managed to serve two full terms...
Army investigators later found 25 German bodies, counted 35 machine guns put out of action by York. General John J. Pershing described York as "the greatest civilian soldier of the war." Marshal Ferdinand Foch told him: "What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe." York went back to the U.S. a sergeant with the Medal of Honor, received a wild hero's welcome...
Would-be summer wonks had better skip the Loeb production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Otherwise, like Ferdinand of Navarre, they might realize the folly of spending one's life in bookish pursuits and come to bemoan those "barren tasks, too hard to keep--Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep...
Reign in Spain. Carlism began in 1833, when King Ferdinand VII, dying without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some...