Word: thrones
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...only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th century. King Feisal ibn Abdul Aziz, 62, is not afraid to call it a revolution. "Revolutions," he says, "can come from a throne as well as from a conspirator's cellar...
...liberalized press laws to show how divided public opinion is on the subject. Since the law went into effect three months ago, the letters and editorial columns of Spain's dailies have been filled with increasingly confusing debates among supporters of the seven assorted claimants to the throne...
...eldest, Don Alfonso, inherited the family hemophilia and bled to death after a 1938 auto accident; the second, Don Jaime, a deaf-mute, renounced the throne, though he later renewed his claim...
...ruler) of Buganda, largest and richest of Uganda's five ancient kingdoms. Buganda's rulers were so powerful in colonial days that they were always granted considerable autonomy by the British. Cambridge-educated Sir Edward F. W. Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula ("Freddy") Mutesa II, who succeeded to the throne in 1942, almost automatically became the nation's first President when it got its independence four years ago. Last week, however, Uganda erupted into a onesided, brutal civil war, and when the fighting had died down the sacred palace of Buganda was in ruins...
...another actress, the movie Morgan! would have been the top of a career; for Vanessa Redgrave, 29, it has only been a steppingstone to a throne. Next year she will be Queen Guinevere in Warner Bros.' screen adaptation of Camelot, a role that Julie Andrews played on Broadway...