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...Anyone who equates contraception with Hitler's precepts, as did Psychiatrist Frank Ayd in his commencement address to Xavier University [June 19], should examine his own mental health. Dr. Ayd's lack of restraint in fathering twelve children cost him only perhaps a sports car or an expensive vacation. Twelve children born to one of lower economic station can mean absolute destitution and lack of education and opportunity for the blameless offspring. I protest being linked with Hitler just because I choose to limit my own family and to help others do the same...
...doing what comes naturally, warned Kentucky's Oswald, has resulted in the population boom that inflames "the ills of mankind." Was that a gentle recommendation of birth control? Maybe so, but Psychiatrist Frank Ayd, the father of twelve children, told graduates of Roman Catholic Xavier University in Cincinnati that the choice is between sacrificial abstinence and the "almost Hitlerian precept" of artificial contraception...
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...