Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week swirled about a wedding in the Norwegian town of Sogne (pop. 4,000). While 150 newsmen and photographers trampled gardens and graves, while 5,000 curious visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, the daughter of a retired grocer and onetime housemaid in the 27-room triplex Manhattan apartment of the Rockefeller family...
...Lutheran church, with the aged local man reportedly being elbowed aside for a more accomplished player from Kristiansand. Back in the States, reporters tracked down Anne-Marie's uncle, Andrew Swenson. at whose Bronx home she stayed when she first came to the U.S. in 1956. A New York City mounted policeman. Uncle Andrew took a melancholy stance beside his horse and confessed he had not been invited to the wedding...
...Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, who embraced Anne-Marie and described her to reporters as "wonderful." Next came Steven's brothers: Michael, a student at Harvard, and Credit Analyst Rodman and his wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin and a student at Vassar, and Ann, 25, the wife of Episcopal Clergyman Robert L. Pierson. None of Steven's 17 first...
Hoping to forestall further attacks, Laos' hard-pressed Premier Phoui Sananikone rushed his brother, former Defense Minister Ngon Sananikone, to New York to put Laos' case before U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Peking promptly huffed that "serious consequences" would follow if the U.N. sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against...
...fight with a more serious opponent: the Roman Catholic Church. On Duvalier's orders, his tough cops grabbed up Father Etienne Grienenberger. rector of St. Martial, Haiti's largest Catholic college, and Father Joseph Marrec, a small-town pastor, and hustled them roughly onto a New York-bound plane, expelling them from Haiti for "reasons of internal security...