Word: leopold
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Correspondent Bill Smith journeyed from Kenya to Tshombe's capitulating capital of Elisabethville to cover the U.N. armed operations there, to undergo the hospitality of the Leopold II (which he nominates as the hotel most in need of improvement in 1963), and to get out the news as best he could, sometimes by U.N. radio. Since the U.N. itself in New York was complaining that its own knowledge of what was going on was often twelve hours behind, it wasn't easy. The embattled correspondents in Elisabethville at one point formally protested against the "censorship and duplicity...
...months there was talk of an impending divorce between Belgium's tall, handsome ex-King Leopold, 61, and his wife Liliane, 46. But when Leopold returned from a zoological expedition to the Amazon basin, Liliane, handsome as ever, was at the airport to meet him. Dropping his royal reserve for once, Leopold later issued a 414-word statement denouncing "those infuriating and scandalous rumors." His wife, he said, had stood by him "with devotion and tenderness for better and for worse. Thanks to her I found again my family hearth...
...have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many hours of her Italian holiday last August...
Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France in 1960, and they have shared the struggle to make the hot little West African nation a going concern. Then, six months ago, Dia, back from a trip to Moscow, took a sharp left turn in his official policies. Moderate President Senghor disagreed violently with Dia's new line. Last week, in a showdown in the sunny capital of Dakar, Senghor shucked his old friend...
...that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...