Word: franz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella, its twelfth reigning prince, observed his 57th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne...
...rising birth rate. An unsullied blend of lush meadowland and soaring Alpine peaks, the nation nestles so unobtrusively between Austria and Switzerland (since 1924 it has shared currency, customs services and foreign service with the Swiss) that vacationers driving through are often unaware that they are even in Franz Josef's fief. This bothers Liechtenstein's government not at all, for, as Prime Minister Alexander Frick once observed, the sight of idle tourists could prove unsettling to the country's hard-working peasants...
Private Leonardo. Liechtenstein also has considerable faith in its wine, a sturdy rose that the government refuses to export for fear of running dry. An even more jealously guarded national treasure is Franz Josef's family art collection (TIME, Dec. 12, 1960), which consists of 1,500 paintings valued at $150 million. It includes the only Leonardo da Vinci in private ownership, a lush portrait of a Florentine maiden called the Ginevra dei Benci, as well as 27 Rubens paintings that are valued at $11 million, and paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Botticelli. The public is allowed...
Despite postwar losses of vast holdings in Communist Czechoslovakia, Franz Josef II is ranked among Europe's ten richest men. A grandnephew of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo ignited World War I, the alert, easygoing prince is also rated Liechtenstein's most popular monarch since Johannes the Good, who took the throne in 1858, reigned 71 years,* and spent an impressive $18 million of his personal fortune to build schools and roads in Liechtenstein. Though no one expected Franz Joseph to spend as much, loyal Liechtensteiners who crowded into the palace last week prayed lustily...
...From left: Prince Nikolaus; Princess Nora Elisabeth; Crown Prince Johannes Adam; Princess Gina (seated); Prince Franz Josef II; Prince Philipp Erasmus...