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Last week Iraq's King Feisal II and his cousin, Jordan's King Hussein, Abdullah's grandson, got together in Baghdad to patch up the spat. Both are 18, and new to their thrones; they acceded on the same day last spring (TIME, May 11). Neither had anything to do with the bickerings; they were away studying at England's Harrow during most of it. In the hot sun at Baghdad airport, they kissed in the Arab fashion, rode off together in a scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases...
...thin, greying hair mussed and damp with fever. Behind him sits the calm doctor, supporting his patient with a strong left arm, gently urging him to drink a tumbler of medicine. There are three figures in Goya's darkened background: a priest, a woman (possibly Goya's cousin and housekeeper, Leocadia Weiss), and a mysterious, gaping head which may be Goya's symbol for death...
Born. To Angela Estree Lyssod Dowding Lascelles, 34, onetime London actress, and the Hon. Gerald David Lascelles, 28, jazz-loving, auto-racing first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; their first child, a son, who is 14th in line of succession to the British throne; in London...
...discreet intimates and to his diary, George V sometimes confided his personal feelings about the drift of the times. He bitterly opposed recognition of Soviet Russia, a government he held responsible for the "abominable murder" of Cousin Nicky, the Czar. In 1917 there was a fluttering of republicanism, and H. G. Wells declared it unthinkable that Britain should struggle longer under "an alien and uninspiring Court." George was incensed. "I may be uninspiring," he thundered to a visitor, "but I'll be damned if I'm alien...
...burning issue was bingo-which was banned because of a supreme court decision, and despite vast public outrage, two months ago. To stand the ghost of a chance in the fall, both candidates had to rise up and speak out not only against corruption, but for bingo, and its cousin skilo, too. for that matter...