Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mary found her next husband in a German spa. He was stiff-necked Count Alfred von Waldersee, whose one attraction for Mary was his friendship with Prince Wilhelm, heir to the German throne. In due course, Mary met Wilhelm. She was a svelte 42, he only 21. Noting that his withered left arm made him feel insecure, she put him at ease with a few soulful chats. She earned his gratitude by finding him a submissive little wife, who later bore him eight children. Husband in tow, Mary moved into an elegant house in Berlin overlooking the River Spree. Wilhelm...
Piel first raises the serious matter of general scientific ignorance. People have learned to accept science as a source of endless improvement, material comfort, and abundance, yet most the exact workings of science are mysterious. "Ironically, science itself seems to have fallen heir to much of what remains of the frightened awe formerly accorded to the outer darkness...
...suite hotel, golf course, statuary in the gardens. Tennis Pro Pancho Gonzales on the courts, and the word PEACE on all of the matchbooks. The champagne, the swimming, the golf and the jet were all provided free, at a cost of more than $100,000, by handsome A. & P. Heir George Huntington Hartford II, 50, a shy, mystical and misty multi-millionaire who is devoting himself to the arduous job of getting poor quick in his search for a satisfying life...
...keystone of the House of Rothschild but the actual edifice: only sons can be partners. The Italian and German banking houses ceased in the 19th century not from lack of shrewdness but from lack of sons. But in France, there has been no lack of sons; the current heir is Guy, who heads what is still the largest private bank in France...
...local officials had the temerity to question their story, the teary-eyed former Mr. Universe fumed: "I am very hurt. Jaynie doesn't need publicity. It's a miracle this girl is living today." The war of innuendo between West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his perennial heir apparent. Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, raged on. Five weeks after Erhard marked Adenauer's 86th birthday with the gift of a stone bench (which he carefully specified was not intended for use in retirement), Adenauer paid his second visit to the Economics Ministry in twelve years...