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During a visit to Toledo some years ago, former King Michael of Rumania voiced astonishment at the way the citizens addressed Mayor Michael Di Salle as "Mike." In old Europe, marveled the ex-monarch, such familiarity toward a high public official would be unthinkable. "Maybe so," Mayor Di Salle replied, "but if your people had called you Mike, you might still be King...
...over 90% of his private fortune to be used "for the benefit of my people." As he moved from Washing ton to New York last week on the second leg of his U.S. visit, he reinforced the impression already made in the capital that he is an earnest, responsible monarch - no longer, he wryly admitted, the Europe-roaming playboy of earlier days...
...fair will also be able to house visitors on the British cruise liner Dominion Monarch, an anchored dormitory that will accommodate 1,450 people. Gandy has given up hope of prying loose the Liberte to serve as a floating hotel...
Frederick the Great of Prussia, who called himself "the first servant of the state," was as much a tyrant as any monarch of the 18th century, but he liked to say of himself that he was "philosopher by instinct and politician by duty." He was also a patron of the arts. He played the flute to the accompaniment of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons; he wrote indifferent poetry under the tutelage of his sometime friend Voltaire; he was an avid collector of paintings and sculpture. In affairs of state, he was Prussian to the bone...
...none of these numbers, however successful, is particularly meteorological; the only two songs on this record to do so are a "Bulldog Twist" (real warm), and a ditty called "Blue Day" (real cool) by His Sax-Blowing Majesty King Bhumibol, the monarch of Thailand...