Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first edition of 35,000 copies sold out the first day. Franklin has gone on to feed the Middle and Far Eastern appetite for books ranging from Ethan Frome to Gone With the Wind, from The Spirit of St. Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum...
...royal visitor, the King of Bulgaria, was impressed with many things he saw in St. Petersburg, but what impressed him most was the man named Carl Fabergé. "My dear Fabergé," said King Ferdinand, "if you were in Bulgaria, I would make you my minister." To which the famous court jeweler replied, "No, no, your majesty, not politics, I beg of you. But minister of the goldsmith's art, why yes, sire, if you will...
Tompkins had discovered the Ferdinand side of Aught's complex personality. Outside of working hours, he likes people. He certainly hates other bulls. "In 1950, when I bought him," says Aught's owner, Washington Stock Contractor Joe Kelsey, "I tried putting him in with the other bulls. He tore into them. I tried putting him in a separate corral, but that didn't work either. Corrals with a low fence, he'd charge right through, and when I put him in an arena with a six-foot fence, he'd jump right over...
...longer exist, such as Lippe-Biesterfeld. the stamp-sized German principality once ruled by the family of Prince Bernhard, Juliana's live-wire husband. Some of the noblest names were borne by hard-working royals such as Britain's globe-trotting Princess Alexandra and Dr. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II who once worked as a mechanic in a Detroit auto plant. Going Dutch with their Queen, Amsterdam's city fathers contributed $28,000 to the royal revels, while 1,500,000 loyal Dutchmen enthusiastically lined the city's ancient canals...
Never one to rush in where the cautious fear to tread, New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner was brooding deeply. Should he run for Governor this year against Republican Nelson Rockefeller? Would he have a chance of winning? Before making up his mind, Wagner was awaiting a report, due shortly, on a statewide, 1,200-interview survey by Pollster Louis Harris. "Whether Wagner runs for Governor," said a Democratic county chairman, "depends upon what Lou Harris tells him." Plenty of U.S. politicians nowadays wait to make decisions until they hear from Lou Harris. At 41, Harris...