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Last May, when Jordan's impetuous King Hussein, 25, married 20-year-old Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British army officer, his subjects were so restive that Toni was pointedly denied the rank of Queen and no less pointedly given the Moslem name, Muna al Hussein ("Wish of Hussein"). Last week both Toni's popular standing and her eventual claim to a title appeared to be on the rise. The reason: a much-publicized court announcement that she is expecting a child early next spring...
...marriage. Stubbornly, a smitten Hussein threatened to abdicate in favor of his neurotic younger brother Mohammed. The Cabinet preferred even Toni to Mohammed, but still threatened to resign if the marriage went through. Finally Hussein made a concession: his bride would not be Queen, but "shall be called Muna al Hussein [the wish of Hussein], with no title or position." Gratefully, Premier Bahjat Talhouni declared that his soul was filled with admiration for "the partner of your life who shares with you indifference to title or position...
...take some of the edge off the unorthodox marriage, Toni last month embraced the Moslem faith, has begun studying Arabic. Hussein also gave her an Arab name, Muna al Hussein-the Wish of Hussein. Radio Cairo and Radio Baghdad have thus far studiously avoided reporting the news of the engagement, but Cairo's Al Akhbar was less polite. "The engagement will lead to an acute crisis in Jordan, and a loss of popularity for Hussein in the Arab world. His engagement to a British girl shows Hussein is searching for a warmth and affection he did not find...
...years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...
Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...