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...Lion & the Scepter. Ibn Saud's paternal great-great-great-grandfather was a mighty Sheikh when George Washington was a planter's son in Virginia. But the Saud family, long powerful in a land where the family is the center of power, fell on evil days in Abdul Aziz' boyhood...
Other experts of pomp and protocol were no less worried at the thought of a rank clash between a nation limited to republican symbols and one which could always bring crown and scepter to the hierarchal front...
...When Dali was very young his mother continually asked him: "Sweetheart, what do you wish? Sweetheart, what do you want?" Among the things young Salvador wanted and got were a king's ermine cape, a gold scepter and a crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered...
From the time of Peter the Athonite to Adolf the paper hanger, the great rocky promontory of Athos, jutting into the Aegean like a prong of Poseidon's three-forked scepter, has been a place of refuge -for men only. No woman has knowingly been allowed to desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish...
...first time ever the U.S. auto industry has a tsar: broad-shouldered, 6-ft., Ernest Carlton Kanzler, high-voltage president-on-leave of car-financing Universal Credit Corp. The scepter was handed to him by War Boss Don Nelson, and with it went the huge job of converting the auto industry to 100% war work...