Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the great crystal chandeliers of the banquet hall, the waiters kept pouring out the Dom Pérignon '62 and the guests kept pouring out Franco-German friendship. At one particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched...
...baby's father, of that region's graciousness and warmth. The water was flown in from the River Jordan. The minister was the Archbishop of Madrid, and the guests included members of three royal families (Greece, Bulgaria and Spain), two Spanish Cabinet ministers and Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus last week, in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of Madrid, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso y Todos los Santos de Borbón, who might by the 21st century sit on the Spanish throne, was freed from the bonds of original...
...grandfather, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 54, the pretender to the throne, interrupted a Caribbean cruise to be on hand. Also present was Sophie's mother, Queen Frederika of Greece. But the one that Spain was watching the closest of all was its own Caudillo Franco...
...reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "We have found you a diplomat of the highest order," he said. "I raise my glass in your honor, in honor of Franco-American friendship...
...tries to turn them into a vicarious wilderness of mirrors refracting all facets of her thwarted ego. One student is to become an intellectual, another to cultivate siren calls of the flesh, still another to be an actress. In actuality, one girl-inspired by Miss Brodie to go help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin...