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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papandreou, 48, who held U.S. citizenship from 1944 to 1964, was released from an Athens prison by the junta's Christmas Eve amnesty. Last week he flew to Paris, where he denounced the present regime as "repressive and dictatorial," warned it to step aside or face a civil war, and called for the establishment of a nonaligned "progressive" government in Greece...
...want," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "is sufficient time to develop my own muscles." At week's end Lee flew off to Britain to seek a reprieve. His trump card: 400 million pounds sterling in his own and Malaysian reserves, which could cause great damage to the pound's value if exchanged for yen or other currencies. Whatever happens, Singapore seems destined to move even closer to Japan, whose businessmen already hold one-quarter of Singapore's industries and were conveniently in conference there last week...
...bidding the past week end, planes flew in from the Continent and London, from Los Angeles and New York, to disgorge bevies of international beauties every bit as dazzling as any courtesan painted by Watteau or Fragonard. Their names tumbled out of Burke 's Peerage, the Almanack de Gotha and the Social Register. From London, there was the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Lady Astor, and the young dandy Lord Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from...
...things Jewish is even closer than his bond with Vienna. "I would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic...
...something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become King, assuming that the monarchy is restored, after Generalissimo Francisco Franco steps down. The prince's father, Don Juan, 54, is, of course, first in line, and the prince loyally flew off to Portugal to spend his birthday with his father in exile...