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Whether that happens depends largely on the blond, handsome storybook princeling who at week's end became Spain's first King since his grandfather, Alfonso XIII, was deposed in 1931. The ceremony was brief but emotional; the traditional crown and scepter were present on a table in Madrid's packed Cortes, but Juan Carlos was not formally crowned. Dressed in the uniform of a captain-general of the Spanish army−a title held only by Franco and six other men in the country's history−Juan Carlos placed his hand on a Bible...
Sybaritic Swath. He was going into the Sahara, Hassan explained, "so that my children and grandchildren may take pride in inheriting a real crown and a true scepter." They also stand to inherit Hassan's fortune (estimated at more than $500 million) and his eight palaces, four of them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince...
Barbie's rival Dawn stars this year in a beauty pageant-a mini-Miss America contest complete with bathing suits, evening dresses, a dinner-jacketed escort doll named Gary and a jeweled scepter all on a pink plastic stage. "It is a part of Americana," explains Jack Jones, a spokesman for Topper Toys, which manufactures the pageant. "We are constantly seeing things that are based on beauty and talent, and the child wants to be a part...
...school stage, Charles is stuck in history. It is his blessing and his burden to be destined to become Charles III, the 41st sovereign of England since the Norman invasion. He will inherit a throne that, for all the erosion of empire and the straitened circumstances of the scepter'd isle, remains the most prestigious in the world...
DIONNE WARWICK: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Scepter). To some ears, Dionne is too "bleached," or white-sounding, to be a soul singer; but the best of her exceptional ways with a note are strictly soul-derived. Though Do You Know the Way to San Jose? is a sleekly "white", and delightful, song, others, such as Let Me Be Lonely, pay their dues to rhythm & blues. Both songs, along with several others on the album, were written by Burt Bacharach, one of the more able and sophisticated composers in the business...