Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home with them to their sees the new cardinals carried something besides their new red hats and rings. Each received a book of dos and don'ts for cardinals. Items: a cardinal's residence must be decorously furnished and must have an ample entrance, a throne room decorated with an oil painting of the reigning pontiff, a reception room and a chapel. Each cardinal must have a private means of transport, and should avoid public carriers such as streetcars, buses and taxis. He must not drive himself. If he goes out for a walk, he must be accompanied...
...nouveau clocks cluttering the Square are frail and glittering pretenders to the throne. Their blinking and bonging and groaning of the hour mark the passage of those who remember what it meant to race south down Divinity Avenue, glance up, and be reassured that it wasn't too late to get lunch. And for the few who remember, their time too is running...
...chaotic Middle East, worries over an heir to the throne are certainly preferable to plots to topple it. A veteran U.S. observer in Teheran allowed himself some tempered optimism about Iran: "I wouldn't say we are confident, but the situation today looks a helluva lot better than it did two or three months...
...restrain the 8,000 cheering teen-agers from mobbing her. "Suteki! Suteki!" the teen-agers cried -"Glorious! Glorious! Our future Empress!'' Michiko Shoda, 24, daughter of a flour magnate, and the first commoner in at least 15 centuries to be betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities, the prince's tutor delicately suggested that the older generation withdraw to the garden. Gaily the prince seized Michiko's hand and led her on an inspection tour...
...tiny (pop. 2,371) Pöcking, West Germany, Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 46, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Charles I) and pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, admitted that he had given up the good fight for feudalism, hoped to enter his homeland (from which he was barred so long as he wanted to run it) as just plain Dr. Otto Habsburg. The likely new pretender: Otto's younger brother, Archduke Robert, 44, who waits for the impossible, in Paris...