Word: rumanians
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...Johore Bahru, Malaya, Major General Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, better known as the Sultan of Johore, began a weeklong, million-dollar party to celebrate his 82nd birthday and 60 years of rule on the throne of the Malay state. During the festivities, his Sultanah, a Rumanian beauty named Marcella Mendl, who is the Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your...
Died. Georges Enesco, 73, Rumanian composer, conductor and violinist, who became his nation's leading musician, won worldwide acclaim for his Rumanian Rhapsodies; after long illness; in Paris. Enesco entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven despite a director's protest that it was "not a cradle," had had his compositions widely performed by the time he was a young man. He had lived in France for the last 50 years, recently turned down a bid to return to Red-controlled Rumania...
...lovesick young artist was on a hunger strike in Tel Aviv last week, and all Israel debated the consequences. The artist: Moshe Barak, 27, an Israeli of Rumanian parentage who was wounded four times in the Arab-Israeli war. His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages...
Millimeter by millimeter, like a small bug on a windowpane, the Finnish tanker Aruba crawled along the charted sea lanes. The world paid little attention as she made her way down from the Rumanian port of Constanta to the Mediterranean and eastward toward Port Said. Then, three weeks ago, like hundreds of other vessels that pass through the Suez Canal, the 10,000-ton Aruba was forced to declare her cargo and destination. It proved to be 13,000 tons of high-grade kerosene consigned to Red China, enough jet plane fuel to carry Communist airmen on an estimated...
...Rumanian legation in Copenhagen, the Communists had trouble over another chauffeur. Driver Ion Cimpu, 25, asked the Danes for political asylum for himself and his bride of eight months, Maria, 21. But the Rumanians got wind of his plan, refused to part with Maria, instead produced her at a press conference, where she said she had never heard her husband talk of fleeing to the West. "Had I known, I would have killed him because such a thought is treason against our country," said Maria. "Now I only want to go back to Rumania as fast as possible, [because...