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...thoughts today are with those who are in the South Atlantic and our prayers are for their success and a safe return to their homes and loved ones. But ordinary life must go on." In Gloucestershire, Prince Charles was asked about Prince Andrew, second in line to the throne and a Sea King pilot aboard the Invincible. Prince Charles replied: "He's all right?just flying very busily. I don't think he's ever done so much flying in his life...
...country with a record of "extreme human rights violations." He cites the Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...
...glorious spring of 1914, not all is dew-pearled. What with taxes, trade unions, the Irish and the suffragettes, England is going to the dogs. In Russia the throne is tottering and workers are out in the streets demanding democracy. In Germany, the Kaiser's men are oiling the guns of August. The Allies attempt to persuade Russia to engage the Boche on the eastern front. But the Bear hangs tough, and time is short...
...Pacific island. The men wear nests in their hair, where clever birds roost-"feathered superegos" who do the thinking for the hominoids when problems get knotty. On the head of King IT the 42nd perches the imperial vulture. His Majesty, built like a sumo wrestler, rides in a mobile throne on the back of a 300-year-old sea turtle, painted every color of the rainbow, which carries him at a 1-m.p.h. crawl...
There should be a new champion in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League this season, which is good news for Harvard. Navy and Cornell, all ready to claim the throne, and bad news for Yale, which finished in the top spot a year...