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Wanting to celebrate his 38th birthday by getting away from it all, Egypt's blimp-sized ex-King Farouk put on his sunglasses, boarded a 22-seat bus and rolled through the Alps into the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. His fellow riders: his 19-year-old daughter Princess Ferial, two bodyguards, a chauffeur, a maid and an anonymous raven-tressed playmate. Explained His Corpulent Majesty: "People think I and my entourage are an ordinary tourist party...
WHEN the North Koreans swept down over the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950, one of the prizes they had their sights on was the great national collection of Korean art in Seoul. Delaying tactics by the museum staff ("The packing took quite a long time," says wide-smiling Dr. Chewon Kim, director of Korea's National Museum) and the recapture of Seoul three months after it had fallen to the Communists saved the treasures. Next week, as a gesture of "gratitude to all those known and unknown American friends who fought with us against the Communist invasion...
France's new Premier brought a fresh face into the tired gallery of politicians who have governed France since World War 11. Elected on his 38th birthday, Felix Gaillard became the youngest man to rule France since Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799. "Of course," said one of Gaillard's aides last week, "Bonaparte also was very gifted...
...Socialists, who keep rejecting one another's candidates, that he should head a "government to defend the republic." The Socialists balked, but finally at week's end agreed to back him. Barring a last-minute hitch, Gaillard was to be voted into office this week, on his 38th birthday, as the youngest Premier in the history of modern France...
PARIS, Nov. 5--Felix Gaillard tonight won approval as France's 24th postwar premier. The victory came on Gaillard's 38th birthday and gives him the distinction of being the youngest premier in French Republican history...