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...votes, in line behind him-and thereby postpone the need for a general election, which need not, by law, be held before February 1968. On the other hand, Constantine clearly leaves the day-to-day business of governing to Stephanopoulos and his ministers, and felt secure enough on his throne to leave the country this summer for a holiday of yachting in Denmark and touring in West Germany...
...night belonged to Franco Zeffirelli, who designed the sets and costumes and directed the whole shebang. His scenery was framed and overhung with scrims that looked like free-form Venetian blinds-around and through which appeared massed armies, a massive moon, a massive sphinx, a massive pyramid, a massive throne, and just about every other eye popper that Cecil B. de Zeffirelli could imagine, not forgetting three live horses, three live goats, one live camel, and three fake asps...
...several years the Danes have been wondering whom Daisy would marry. Otherwise known as Princess Margrethe, 26, Daisy will one day inherit the throne of Denmark. Now she has chosen her consort: Count Henri Jean Marie André de Laborde de Monpezat, 32, a French diplomat whom she met in London three years ago. Briefly leaving his post as third secretary of the French embassy in London to meet his future in-laws, the count called on King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid in Copenhagen, practiced his Danish, and arranged his conversion from Catholicism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church...
Sihanouk needed all the prestige he could extract from touching the hem of De Gaulle's khaki tunic. In the green-and-gold Throne Pavilion, Sihanouk made the two-star French brigadier general an Honorary Supreme General of the Royal Khmer Armed Forces. Under a great moon at the ancient temple of Angkor Wat, Sihanouk recreated the festival of the coronation of a Khmer king. Everywhere, in his toasts and speeches, the Prince was all praise, reminding De Gaulle of "your prestige, your wiseness, your clairvoyance, your sense of equity...
Born. To Princess Alexandra, 29, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 37, Scottish businessman: their second child, first daughter, who takes her place as 17th in line to the throne; in Richmond Park, England...