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...Bishop Herrera and those who think like him should inherit the Spain of tomorrow. Protestants could hardly expect much more elbow room than they have now. But there would be room for one modern idea, which to medieval minds is always heresy: change...
This chart shows the line of succession as it is today. If Prince Charles dies or abdicates without heirs, his little sister Anne will inherit the throne. Next in line after Anne: the new Queen's sister, Princess Margaret. Thereafter, the succession goes through the late King George VI's brothers, nieces and nephews: first, to the Duke of Gloucester, and his sons William and Richard; then, to the children of George, Duke of Kent, who died in World War II when his R.A.F. flying boat crashed in Scotland. They are: Edward, now Duke of Kent, Michael (whose...
...Right? Some officials were ready to agree. Even the Labor Party, with its Socialistic love of the tidy plan for everything, had worried over the fact that "the three types of schools are bound to inherit the old traditions of class segregation . . . [with] some children resentfully concluding that they are inferior to [those] attending grammar schools." Last week the controversy boiled up anew when A. G. Hughes, chief inspector in the Education Officers' Department of the London County Council, published a book with some severe words for the whole tripartite idea...
...week, some of its members were already thinking about the 75 years ahead. For the diamond jubilee issue of Chemical and Engineering News, they described a brave new universe where every home will have two-way wireless, space ships will circle the moon (see below) and the scientists will inherit the earth. Among the wonders the citizen of 2026 will take for granted...
Should this happen, the boss's favored son will inherit a prize air force, built up by a nation that tuned to the throb of an airplane engine almost before it knew the automobile...