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Died. Catherine Drinker Bowen, 76, stately, spirited patrician who found a large audience as the author of well-researched, fictionalized biographies of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Yankee from Olympus), Sir Edward Coke (The Lion and the Throne) and John Adams (John Adams and the American Revolution); of cancer; in Haverford...
When Farah Diba, an Iranian Girl Scout, and basketball captain of her Teheran school, married the Shah of Iran in 1959, Iranian women were traditionally considered to have "more hair than brains." However, by 1963 Farah's influence on the Peacock Throne was obviously being felt: the Shah gave women the vote. Winding up a private visit to Paris, Empress Farah, 35, stopped off to see the latest portrait of herself, a larger-than-life work by French Painter Edouard Mac'Avoy. The background shows Iran happily progressing toward the millennium: ancient columns mingling with oil derricks, children...
...Executive Branch. Written by Newton Minow, FCC chairman in the Kennedy Administration, John Bartlow Martin, an author and a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Lee Mitchell, an attorney specializing in communications law, Presidential Television urges a thorough reform of broadcasting regulations before the President's "electronic throne" becomes all too real...
...Which one of you am I going to be engaged to tomorrow?" teased Britain's Prince Charles as a gaggle of giggling housewives greeted him at the start of a day's grouse shooting in Scotland. Obviously, like the housewives, the bachelor heir to the British throne had been reading the latest spate of speculation about his marital plans. Currently supposed to be the leading choice as his future Queen: Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, daughter of the seventh Duke of Wellington. But then, Bonnie Prince Charlie is also rumored to be fond of Rose Clifton, 21, whose father...
Perhaps Amenhotep was one of the first student radicals. At any rate, he succeeded to the throne at about 16 and set out to revolutionize the age-old system of multiple deities, substituting a single god, Aten, symbolized by the sun. In fact, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning Useful to Aten. Women's Lib would have loved him: he gave equal billing, in bas-relief and statuary, to his Queen, Nefertiti. She was portrayed in the sleek drapery she might actually have worn, one shoulder bare, a clasp under her right breast. In dark red quartz...