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...bride arrived 45 minutes late for her wedding, but that was the only time wasted in the speedy romance between Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, and Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30. After a one-month acquaintance and a week-long engagement, the couple had come to be wed in the Greek seaside town of Glyphada. While a score of family members -including Stepmother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her son John -crowded together in the tiny chapel of Aiksonis, an exquisite recreation of a Byzantine monastery, Christina and Alexander repeated the vows of the Greek Orthodox Church, made the traditional...
...some, the hasty marriage looked suspiciously like a well-planned merger. Christina, who inherited a large part of a multimillion-dollar shipping empire after the death of Aristotle Onassis last March, had been dating Greek Shipping Heir Peter Goulandris, 27, until just three weeks before her wedding. Andreadis, whose own family holdings include three Greek banks, two shipyards, real estate, a fertilizer and canning factory, had been romancing Denise Sioris, 24, the daughter of a U.S. foreign service officer, for the past two years. "There was none of this falling madly in love at first sight," said one close friend...
Modern Presidents are inundated with not only possible but impossible tasks; they are asked to cure, for every individual and the human race in general, all the ills that flesh is heir to. Being considered universal problem-solvers, they have become universal scapegoats. Their voices may sound across the nation and the world, but what they put forward will not impress a listener who feels that the speaker has failed to straighten out, as he should have done, the listener's own particular problems...
...Maoist Ovimbundu from the southeast who split from the MPLA last year with 3000 men. But they have previously failed in efforts to win over the Ovimbundu and Cabindan tribes. In any event, the FNLA is still firmly anchored among the Bakongo, many of whom view Roberto as the heir of the Kongolese dynasty. The return of half of the 600,000 Bakongos who fled Portuguese repression after the 1961 revolt reinforces the FNLA tribal base substantially...
Finally the Jazz Workshop has seen fit to bring in somebody who at least at one time had a lot of talent. Pharaohs Sanders was John Coitrane's heir apparent as greatest tenor man after the master's death in the mid-sixties. Sanders was riding high for a couple of years, and deservedly so--few could do as much as he could with the instrument, especially in the upper registers...