Word: orchid
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...bedside of Princess, Michiko, 28, in the Imperial Household/Hospital came Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, 29, bearing a potted vermilion orchid, her favorite flower. The occasion was not a happy one. For reasons of health, said Palace spokesmen, "at signs of impending miscarriage," the Princess had been surgically aborted by her physicians...
...good executive. But Lenore Romney, his handsome wife (who opted for marriage instead of a movie contract in 1931) knows the wifely wisdom of the let-George-do-it axiom. Out shopping for an inaugural ball gown, she nodded agreeably when his eye fastened on a "blush orchid" satin number with beaded bodice and boat neckline. Said she: "George chose it, I tried it on. and away we went...
...London's High Court of Justice sat portly Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian, 66, the orchid in his buttonhole quivering at the slow progress of his suit against BBC. The son of the late oil mogul Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent") Gulbenkian sought to force BBC to turn over a recording of a 1959 interview in which he complained that the administrators of his father's estate were withholding a part of his inheritance. Barely pausing to eat, Gulbenkian lunched daily in a court anteroom on caviar canapes, truffled ham laced with port, cutlets in aspic and glazed duckling, Belgian raspberries...
...inventive biochemist, Dr. Gustav W. Rapp of Chi cago's Loyola University, predict whether a child is likely to develop a lot of tooth cavities. The colors (from an enzyme in the saliva) will indicate the children's relative risks: blue means little chance of imminent cavities, orchid means some chance, red suggests real danger, and a no-color reaction is most ominous...
...African Orchid. No caged bird, but a delicious, capricious worldling, the Ivory Coast's sensuous, luxury-loving Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny, 31, delights Parisians even more than Jacqueline Kennedy or the Empress Farah. Sinuous and creamy-skinned (her grandmother was white), Marie-Therese was one of six children of an Ivory Coast customs official who sent her to France to finish high school. There she soon caught the eye of Félix Houphouet-Boigny, an able politician who even in 1956 was plainly destined to lead his country after it won independence from France...