Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will receive his Nobel medal and scroll from the King of Sweden next Sunday. A week of dinners, parties, and dances will follow. "Then, we'll be taking a plane--what's left of us--for Copenhagen," Wald said last night. He will lecture there and visit friends before returning to Cambridge on December...
...Denmark's richest men when he died in 1965 at the age of 88. He passed the helm of the company to his son, Maersk McKinney* MØller, now 54, who commands his diverse enterprises from an inconspicuous red brick building on King's Square in Copenhagen. Near his desk hangs a world map on which colored magnets chart the day-by-day movements of Maersk Line ships. Says MØller: "What I do is operate a round-the-world bus service...
...formula for a contemporary spy thriller almost always starts off with a supply of beautiful, pliant women. Crafty agents of a world conspiracy have to put in an appearance, and then, in varying combinations, there are likely to be urban vignettes from Copenhagen to Washington to Havana, stolen state papers, harried Red defectors, ominous confrontations between great powers. Finally, a suave but implacable intelligence officer can be counted on to save the West from its own follies...
...from it. An official of the German consulate in Copenhagen had leaked news of the plan to the Danes, and working in part with other sympathetic Germans, the Danish underground boldly thwarted the Nazis. Within two weeks 8,007 Jews were smuggled into Sweden; the Nazis snared only 460-of whom 400 survived in the Theresienstadt concentration camp largely because of continuing Danish political pressures. Clearly, the rescue of the Danish Jews by their fellow countrymen stands among the few bright moments in the dark night that fell upon European Jews...
Married. Princess Margrethe of Denmark, 27, eldest daughter of Denmark's King Frederik IX and heir to the throne; and Count Henri de Monpezat, 32, handsome French diplomat; in a royalty-studded ceremony in Copenhagen's ancient Holmens Church...