Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the steps of St. Vincent's Church in Lisbon walked faded, sixtyish Elena (Magda) Lupescu, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's late ex-King Carol, who lies buried in the church's pantheon. A widow since 1953, blonde, green-eyed Magda was Carol's faithful companion in palace and in exile for more than 30 years, now lives quietly at the villa they once shared in nearby Estoril, avidly plays canasta with a small circle of friends...
With other self-conscious youngsters whose names begin with G, 16-year-old Ernest Green, Negro, filed across the speakers' platform set up last week in the stadium of Little Rock's Central High School, got a handshake and a diploma from Principal Jess W. Matthews. Watching intently were Ernest's mother and brother, his classmates, part of a detail of 200 federalized National Guardsmen and 137 cops. Two days before, as Central High seniors marched away from their baccalaureate service, a white youth was arrested for spitting in the face of a Negro girl. But from...
...Ecuador, which gave Nixon two friendly, peaceful days, last week followed up by selling a green two-sucre (11½?) postage stamp, hurriedly engraved in Austria's State Printing Works and flown to Quito. The commemorative stamp bore the Vice President's likeness and the flags of the U.S. and Ecuador...
...rewards for the deepsea plunger. Swanson finds, are great and varied: "In northern waters the general atmosphere of the sea is rather somber, a deep mystical green, like a dark cathedral. In tropical waters the colors are overwhelming, like a gaudy festival." Swanson has discovered that underwater one can work over, around and sometimes under the subject matter. "The problems,'' he likes to muse, ''may be comparable to those man will have when he begins to draw in outer space...
...Napoleon known to history emerged with incredible rapidity. The small figure in his green chasseur's uniform and white waistcoat and breeches became a kind of miniature god of war who presided over incredible carnage without blinking. After the defeat at Moscow. Napoleon told Austria's Metternich: "The French can't complain of me. To spare them. I've sacrificed Germans and Poles. I lost 300,000 men, but only 30,000 were French." Retorted Metternich sharply: "You forget, Sire, that you are speaking to a German...