Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Xavier Cugat, 64, roly-poly king of Latin swing; by Abbe Lane, 32, wiggly-jiggly singer who joined "Coogie's" conga line in 1950; after twelve years of marriage, no children; on grounds of incompatibility; in Juárez, Mexico...
...that looked more like a political rally than wedding festivities. The crowd rang with Carlist-battle cries of "Vivan los reyes!", and students from Spain's Loyola College, in the heart of Carlist country, serenaded the pair with guitars, tambourines and castanets. Irene's father-inlaw, Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, as gaunt and straight-backed as an El Greco grandee, arranged a brief interview with Pope Paul VI, who gave the newlyweds his personal blessing and their first wedding present-a crucifix. No reigning monarchs attended the wedding, but the guests included such ghost royalty...
Beaming with pleasure, The Netherlands' Princess Irene drove out to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport one day last week to meet her future in-laws. The visitors-Prince Xavier and Princess Magdalena-were coming to celebrate Irene's engagement to their son, Spain's Prince Carlos de Borbon y Parma, and with them was the royal engagement ring, a large ruby surrounded by diamonds. Quickly, Irene slipped it on and happily showed it off for the television cameras. Next day in The Hague, she and Carlos were toasted with champagne by the Dutch Cabinet, and busied themselves...
...Xavier University...
...ones beamed. And the littlest one drowsed through it all. It was christening day for Christopher George Kennedy, 15 days. Resting in the arms of his aunt and godmother Mrs. Pat Lawford, the eighth child of Ethel and Bobby Kennedy was baptized by Richard Cardinal Cushing in St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, Mass. The gathering of the clan all but buried Family Friend Dean Markham, who works in Washington as executive secretary of the President's Narcotics and Drug Abuse Committee, and was, after all, the baby's godfather. Said Cardinal Cushing, after administering a special papal...