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...sported tattoos on his arms and chest. To most Danes he was a discreet, suitable constitutional monarch and an ideal family man and father. His popularity was enhanced by Swedish-born Queen Ingrid and Daughters Margrethe, 31, who succeeds him, Benedikte, 27, married to German Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and Anne-Marie, 25, the exiled Queen of Greece...
...billion for the year. The debate intensified last week as Administration officials testified before the congressional Joint Economic Committee and encountered skepticism even from some Republican members. Representative Barber Conable of New York said that the forecast reminded him of a remark by an anthropologist friend: "The Zuñis realized that the rain dance didn't bring the rain, but it made the tribe feel better...
...longer poems are better, however. "Die Stunde zu Endor," "The Hour at Endor," is a long, rambling plaintive piece, filled with biblical allusions and curiously moving. Her series of "Choruses" sums up the spirit of longing and sorrow which is the backbone of her whole poetic work, and most of the poems display the marvelous strength of her use of the language...
...paper on the Continent. His more thoughtful Die Welt (circ. 280,000) is one of Germany's most influential papers. Its Sunday edition, along with Springer's other paper, Bild am Sonntag, accounts for 90% of Germany's Sunday circulation. Springer also publishes Hör Zu! (Listen!) a TV guide that has the largest circulation (3,764,000) of any weekly magazine in Germany. Nor does Springer show any sign of slowing down. Next March he plans to bring out another magazine, Jasmin, which will aim for a circulation of 1,500,000 among young marrieds...
...leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after Dr. Farber introduced methotrexate treatment, doctors found that they could knock off one or at most two logs, or zeros, from the cell count. This meant that more patients enjoyed longer...