Word: kronborg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor's orders he went to a seacoast village in Kenya, Africa, spent the next six months skindiving to rebuild his lungs and suffering through the pangs of withdrawal. He married a Swedish girl, settled in Elsinore, Denmark, in a villa in the shadow of the famed Kronborg Castle, and played throughout Europe for the next three years. When he returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than ever, helped popularize the bossa nova. One album, with Brazilian Guitarist João Gilberto, was belatedly released last year. It became one of the best-selling jazz...
...Denmark for a five-day visit, Richard Nixon squired Pat through Copenhagen's dazzling Tivoli Gardens, careened around in a "dodgem" car there, and toured Hamlet's Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. Then he headed up to Rebild National Park in Jutland to keynote the annual Independence Day Festival there. Speaking before an audience of 40,000 in Rebild's natural amphitheater, the former Vice President drew cheers with an appeal for strength and unity in the face of Communism. Scarcely had he finished speak ing than tragedy struck one of the men who shared the platform with...