Word: sarajevo
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Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg...
...hours later, Edvard Kardelj, the No. 2 man in Yugoslavia, the man who prosecuted Djilas and is now running the country while Titc is away, spoke up. "Every honest man would spit in the face of 'politicians' of this type," he told a party gathering at Sarajevo. That Djilas and Dedijer should air their grievances abroad, he said, represents "a filthy blackmail of our democracy...
Died. Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, 49, younger son of Austria's Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo (1914) touched off World War I; of a heart ailment; in Graz, Austria. No friend of Hitler, Prince Ernest once smashed an illuminated swastika sign with his umbrella in Vienna, spent the next five years (1938-43) in a German concentration camp...
...planned, built and flew the world's first really workable helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...
Your researchers are slightly off the beam on their Habsburgs. The Jan. 28 issue announces the death of Archduke Maximilian Eugene of Austria, referring to him as the younger brother of the Emperor Charles and son of Francis Ferdinand who was assassinated at Sarajevo. He was Charles's brother, right enough, but both were nephews of Francis Ferdinand and sons of the heir's younger brother, Otto Francis Joseph. Francis Ferdinand's marriage to Sophie Hohenberg was morganatic, and their children had no claim to the throne. Sic transit . . . but not that fast...