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Though it has but one monarch, England does not lack for regally imperious voices. Mrs. St. Maugham (Constance Cummings) is a dowager queen who rules a country house, or seems to. She thunders out non sequiturs in the accents of invincibility. She is half dotty, half a sage and always right. As she tells Miss Madrigal (Irene Worth), who has applied for the post of governess to her granddaughter: "Now that there are no subject races, one must be served by the mad, the sick and those who can't take their places in the outside world...
...First Family leads the sort of life that no multimillionaire could afford and no monarch can surpass. Who but an American President has a personal fleet of plush turbojet helicopters at his disposal and available on a few minutes' notice? Where reigns the king or dictator with a pool of jet aircraft of various sizes and speeds to accommodate his official needs or personal whims...
...overwhelmingly popular monarch in an egalitarian age, Queen Elizabeth II, 55, passed a milestone last week-her 30th anniversary as Queen of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...
Gaddafi came to power in 1969. Then a captain in the Libyan army, he staged a bloodless coup against the country's effete, Westward-leaning monarch, King Idris. Shortly after the coup, Gaddafi proclaimed the principles of his governmental policy, which included the elimination of all foreign bases (including the American-run Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli), neutrality in foreign policy and national unity in a country that until then had been sharply divided along provincial and tribal lines. A year later, Gaddafi announced that not only had these objectives been met but that the minimum wage had been doubled...