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...often drops in at bars for a beer or two, touring the tables to greet acquaintances. Now and then he goes to nightclubs, chats with friends until the small hours. He was not born to be a king, for he was only the third son of weak, dissolute Alfonso XIII. His eldest brother Don Alfonso was heir apparent...
...handsome bull of a man, with no trace of the family's hereditary illness. But his younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, is blind. His older daughter, Infanta Pilar, 25, is now completing her nurse's training in Lisbon. Living in Lausanne, Switzerland, is Queen Victoria Eugenia, Alfonso XIII's English widow, 74, regal matriarch of the brood, and last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...
...many Protestants, the clock of Catholicism appears to have stopped in the Middle Ages; Küng says they are wrong. Some major reforms of attitudes and actions-notably as a result of the Jesuits, the Council of Trent, and Popes Leo XIII, Pius XII and John XXIII-have been accomplished within the church. Küng argues that many of these changes have answered the initial demands of the Reformers. In historical scholarship, European Catholic writers nowadays exude sympathy for the motives of Luther...
...June 1 VII MWF at 2 Wed., May 23 VIII MWF at 3 Th., May 24 IX MWF at 4 Th., May 24 X TuThs at 8 Tu., June 5 XI TuThs at 9 Sat., May 26 XII TuThs at 10 Mon., May 28 XIII TuThs at 11 Mon., June 4 XIV TuThs at 12 Wed., May 23 XV TuThs at 1 Tu., June 5 XVI TuThs at 2 Tu., June 5 XVII TuThs at 3 Fri., June 1 XVIII TuThs at 4 Fri., June...
...Force, and is increasingly a testing ground for NASA. The first operationally fired Thor was launched from Vandenberg, and so was the first Atlas to be rocketed across the Pacific. The Discoverer series was launched into polar orbit, and the 1960 recovery of the gold-plated capsule of Discoverer XIII off Hawaii marked the first time an American object had been retrieved from orbit in space...