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...kings, five queens and more than 100 princes and princesses came to Athens last week to celebrate the marriage of King Constantine to Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, and the royal flush virtually undid the ancient birthplace of democracy. Ordinary counts, barons and prime ministers languished unnoticed in hotel lobbies; telephones and traffic alike broke down; and the bridegroom daily confronted a protocol officer's nightmare. The King and Queen of Belgium, the King of Norway, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, for example, arrived on the same aircraft, requiring Constantine to march out to the plane...
...Hour Flush. Working with the radiopharmaceutical division of E. R. Squibb & Sons, Dr. Taplin found what he wanted: human albumin, but in a special form made up of large molecules too big to pass through the lungs' blood filters, and laced with radioactive iodine. Dr. Taplin proved in dogs that these macro-molecules would jam up in the clot-closed arteries, stay there long enough to take their own picture on an X-ray plate, then break up into the normal, small-molecule form of albumin and pass into the bloodstream...
Wooed back to the Congo, Tshombe claimed the allegiance of every major faction. Wheeling and dealing as if every card were a wild deuce, Tshombe seemed to hold a royal flush ranging from Kasai's rightist "King" Albert Kalonji through such "moderate" face cards as Army Boss Joseph Mobutu and Justice Minister Justin Bomboko to the Communist-backed National Lib eration Committee's Andre Lubaya. But the N.L.C. could still prove a joker in Tshombe's hand: Leftist Antoine Gizenga still languished in forced exile last week on an island at the mouth of the Congo River...
This was the gaslight age, la belle epoque, an era doomed to end with the first shot fired at Sarajevo. The flamboyant demotic art of the poster captured this society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
...charming, Keatsian and somehow like every other poem tossed off by a carefree youth in the flush of summer...