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...Johann Kepler published his remarkable studies on the orbital speed of planets. Two generations later, they were to lead Newton to the theory of gravitation, and in Kepler's own time they so impressed James I of England that he tried to hire the great German astronomer as an adviser to his court. Back home in Linz that same year, Kepler's mother was thrown into prison as a witch...
...Mediterranean were a couple of Europe's comeliest blonde princesses. As she modestly took umbrage behind a beach blanket to foil photographers at Sainte-Maxime on the French Riviera, Sweden's bouncy Princess Birgitta, 24, might have thought that her already five-week honeymoon with Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, would go on forever. After all, just down the coast near Viareggio, Italy, were Belgium's lissome Princess Paolo, 23, and Prince Albert, 27, on the beach with young son Prince Philippe as they celebrated their second anniversary...
...pageant-caliber tableaux, beginning with the moment when 22-yearold Martin Luther was received into the order of Augustinian Eremites in Erfurt. Subsequently he is shown on the day he has significant difficulty saying his first Mass; he wrangles with his father, confers with his friend and guide, Johann von Staupitz, nails up his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, speaks forcefully to Cardinal Cajetan, the papal legate, and so on, until in the end he symbolically holds his young child in his arms and tells him: "Don't be having dreams so soon...
Married. Princess Birgitta, 24, handsome, 6-ft. blonde gymnastics teacher, a granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf; and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, 6-ft. 2-in. candidate for a doctorate in archaeology at the University of Munich; in a civil ceremony in Stockholm's royal palace, followed by Roman Catholic rites in Sigmaringen, Germany...
SERVICE OF MUSIC. The University Choir, directed by John Ferris, University Organist and Choirmaster, assisted by the Bach Society Orchestra will participate in a Palm Sunday evening service of music that will include a performance of Bach's Cantata 131, Aus der Tiefe, and two motets by son Johann Cristoph. Memorial Church; 8:30 P.M. Open to the public...