Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a touch of sadness that renowned Physicist Leopold Infeld, 63, a close collaborator of Albert Einstein, gave up his Canadian citizenship eleven years ago and returned home to Poland. After 17 years in the West, said Infeld at the time, "I have come to love and admire Canada's democratic spirit, its sense of fair play." Now chairman of Poland's Atomic Energy Commission, Infeld recalls these Western values-within the limits set by Poland's cultural commissars. In a semi-official magazine. Infeld dutifully asserts that freedom in the U.S. is diminishing, but adds...
...royal tie dates back to 1822, when King William I of The Netherlands founded the company to finance development projects in his scraggly Belgian province. When Belgium won independence in 1839, La Générale got the country going with loans, and half a century later King Leopold II repaid the favor by picking La Générale to unlock the wealth of his Congo fief...
From the LIFE Nature Library series (by mail order only; $3.95 a book): THE FOREST, by Peter Farb; THE SEA, by Leonard Engel; and THE DESERT, by A. Starker Leopold...
...church (after Cardinals Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...
...Britain's George V (five times) was succeeded by George VI (four covers) and now Elizabeth II (five times), not to mention other members of the family, such as the Duke of Windsor and Margaret. Similarly, Belgium's royal family progresses from Albert in 1928 to Son Leopold III in 1937 and on to Grandson Baudouin. On the other hand, the Iranian dynasty, which is younger than TIME, began with a soldier named Reza Shah Pahlevi, who made TIME'S cover three times and was succeeded by his son, the present Shah, who has made it twice...