Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news out of this remote corner is that it is not the British but the Imam of Yemen who is falling back. Early last year the old (68) tyrant had to go to Italy for medical treatment. While he was away, the heir apparent, Crown Prince Badr, unable to hold the warring Yemeni tribesmen in line, emptied the royal treasury in paying out great sums to keep their allegiance. When the Imam got back last August, he had to retrench. He sent home some 70 Egyptian technicians brought in by his son, stopped the costly flow of rifles...
Scent of Mystery, the first picture made by Mike Todd Jr., son and heir of the late producer of Around the World in 80. Days, has been tagged by the Hollywood wisenheimers as "the first movie that ever smelled on purpose." Actually, it is the second smellie released in recent months. Behind the Great Wall (TIME, Dec. 21) beat Todd's picture to Broadway by a nose, partly because "amazing Aroma-Rama" (which breathes the "olfactory effects" in and out of a theater through its air-conditioning system) is simpler to in stall than Todd's "glorious Smell...
...will not be approved by the British public," said Britain's biggest paper, the tabloid Daily Mirror. From the London Times there was an uncomfortable silence. But for all these reservations about the Queen's decision, the expected birth within the next few days of another royal heir was bound to remind everyone again how basically popular Britain's Queen...
...great-granddaughter lived to present a silver gilt cup, once the property of poor mad George, to her great-grandchild-Prince Charles, present heir to the throne of England. She thus placed herself dead center in that huge tract of time between Saratoga and V-E day. Born Victoria Mary of Teck in 1867, she was called "May" by her family, and she is known to recent memory as Queen Mary, wife of George V, her second cousin once removed. With her pastel parasols, tailored suits and hats designed by some puckish confectioner, she was an anachronistic though never absurd...
...most discussed picture in Manhattan cannot be seen-except in reproduction (opposite). Salvador Dali's Christopher Columbus Discovers America, commissioned by A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, was given a one-day "private" champagne showing at Manhattan's French & Co. attended by a handful of critics and a mob of snobs, then rolled up and stored away to await the opening of Hartford's "Gallery of Modern Art" on Columbus Circle two years hence...