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...fictional thrillers by David St. John, Ward has had far more exciting adventures. There was the time, for instance, when he was assigned to verify the identity of the man with the scarred face who was returning from 20 years in Soviet slave labor camps to claim the throne of Spain. Or the time he went to Japan on his own and wound up in "a wild round of I Spy, featuring Koto-playing geishas, Chi-Com masters, and a beautiful Nipponese belle who's simply murder in the bath." Hazardous Duty's burglary scene is of special...
Under the constitution that Papadopoulos promulgated in 1968, which provides that the King is titular head of state, last week's announcement that Greece had become a republic was patently illegal. But it did not come as much of a surprise. Originally, the colonels had used the throne as a way of giving their rule some illusion of legitimacy. King Constantine's refusal to return to Greece from exile in Rome until democracy was restored had long since made a mockery of that claim...
...that of the Achaemenian dynasty -which ruled ancient Persia for two centuries-are shrouded in the mists of the past. The great bas-reliefs that Darius ordered carved into a cliffside in Behistun, some 150 miles to the north of Susa, for instance, tell of his accession to the throne and his triumph over enemies. But they are too fragmentary to offer a full historical record...
Married. James Edward Lascelles. 19, second son of the Earl of Harewood (the Queen's cousin) and 20th in line of succession to the British throne; and Freddy Duhrssen, 19, American student and member of a Suffolk commune; both for the first time; in Wortham, England. Lascelles, organist for a rock group called the Global Village Trucking Company, and Duhrssen met more than a year ago and, according to the bride, "fell restaurant." in love in a vegetarian...
...rebellion of modern youth ("an explosion of despair"), the art of Marcel Duchamp, Sade's philosophy ("His model is not a volcano, although he liked volcanoes very much, but cold lava"). Paz even notes the first feminist, Penthesilea, legendary queen of the Amazons, who ruled from "a throne of vertigo and tides...