Word: throneless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailing vessels last week nosed into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall...
...Majesty in the serious decision you have been pleased to take." Ben Moulay Arafa scarcely listened, laboriously climbed aboard the waiting plane. An hour later, the plane landed at Tangier, where Ben Moulay Arafa will live at French expense in a hastily rehabilitated villa which once belonged to another throneless Sultan of Morocco...
...five-star General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 75 this week, the six-star honorary title of "General of the Armies of the United States." Only American so honored previously: John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I* With nothing to lose, throneless, jobless ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia told some London newsmen that his ex-realm's Marshal Tito will be tossed out of power by 1975 (when Tito will be an oustable 84). Said Peter, who is planning to make a U.S. lecture tour this fall: "He is having quite...