Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella, its twelfth reigning prince, observed his 57th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne...
...portable canopy, was led by brass bands through every street in the North End. A man with pins walked beside it, and gave them out to all to pin money onto the ribbons flowing from the canopy. The parade ended with a ceremony featuring prayers and an "Ave Maria" intoned by two girls on opposite balconies, and a third, as an angel, hauled out over the crowd by a block and tackle. Everyone was suitably impressed at the effort, which was appropriately quasi-religious...
There was no suggestion of divorce. But at last the papers could break out pictures of the contessa, who turned out to be no contessa at all, but Maria Christina Vettore Austin. Born in Venice 36 years ago of well-to-do parents, she cultivated a taste for international high life, and married and divorced a British naval officer named William Austin, now dead. Christina and Henry Ford met in Paris at a party given by Grace Kelly Rainier...
Slender, blue-eyed Maria turned up at the office of a Milan newspaperman friend one day last week to see how they were playing the story. He jokingly wrote out a fake headline quoting her as saying: I LOVE HENRY AND I WILL SOON MARRY HIM. "Oh no!" she squealed, laughing delightedly. "That would ruin me!" They agreed to make it: MARIA CHRISTINA DOES NOT DENY FRIENDSHIP WITH HENRY FORD...
...Australia has ever produced, undertook to coach her through the hard-to-cross gap that separates excellence from greatness. Under Sedgman's coaching, she ran, lifted weights, avoided boy friends. "They don't mix with tennis," she explains. In 1960, at 17, she upset Brazil's Maria Bueno in the finals, became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship...