Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ringed on every royal and near-royal engagement book in Europe is Sept. 18, date of the 21-cannon wedding that will reunite the ruling families of Greece and Denmark. In a Greek Or thodox ceremony in Athens, King Constantine of the Hellenes, 24, will take as his Queen Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid. Prettiest, youngest and liveliest of three royal sisters, leggy (5 ft. 8 in.), slim (120 Ibs., 22-in. waist) Anne-Marie will also be the first at the altar-as well as the first Danish princess to marry a reigning monarch since 1680, when Sweden...
Victoria's Relations. In preparation for the marriage, which will be held 19 days after Anne-Marie's 18th birthday, she is taking a recorded Linguaphone course in conversational Greek, a present from a Copenhagen record distributor. Meanwhile, since Constantine speaks little French (hers is fluent) and no Danish, they chat in English, which both speak well...
...Europe's oldest dynasty, is a distant cousin of her husband-to-be*,-and is also a descendant of Queen Victoria, Constantine's great-great-grandmother. They first met in July 1957, when she was not quite eleven and he was a naval cadet on a Greek training ship. The rumors started four years later. Anne-Marie, who was not overly bright as a student, attended two Swiss schools to learn French but got most of her education at the private coed Zahle School in Copenhagen. One day, startled by a piercing wolf whistle from outside, a Zahle...
...rubbishy but relatively innocuous nudes, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, declared the international art show off limits to all priests and nuns. President Antonio Segni thereupon absented himself as official host and prize giver. But this scarcely dimmed the carnival spirits of the cocktail set. Greek-born Iris Clert won the unofficial party-thrower prize by hiring a yacht, tying it up in the Grand Canal, and calling it the Biennale Flottante; inevitably, one of her guests was soon flottante...
...Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Greek architect-planner and deviser of ekistics (the science of human settlements)-LL.D...