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Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 46, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 28: their third child, second son and second in line for succession to the 2,500-year-old Persian throne; in Teheran...
...white silk organza and wrapped in white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room. Then, having donned the 18-ft. red velvet train, originally tailored for Queen Victoria and a 3-lb. jeweled crown, she mounted the throne in the jammed Lords' Chamber. "My Lords," murmured the Queen, "pray be seated...
...Trinidad-Tobago's capital of Port-of-Spain. Thousands of cheering Negroes lined the streets, and one man gallantly pulled off his shirt and laid it in the path of the visitor's car. Later, 1,100 schoolchildren put on a dance extravaganza. Then, seated on a throne beneath a purple canopy in a makeshift church on Port-of-Spain's outskirts, the visitor watched impassively as incense-swinging priests murmured prayers and the high priest read a long eulogy. Thus last week did Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, King of Kings and Elect...
...alltime highs during the first quarter. Lynn A. Townsend, 46, who took over the presidency of Chrysler in 1961, when the company was troubled by sagging profits and conflicts of interest among its officers, was now named chief executive officer as well, making him the obvious heir to the throne of Chairman George H. Love, 65, who plans to retire at year's end. Unlike other shareholders' meetings, which were plagued by professional hecklers, Chrysler's was quiet. About the only nuisance motion made was one to establish a wax museum of autoindustry founders...
...will get me out of this filth one day. He is a God of mercy, dressed all in white and sitting on a golden throne." A Dutch charwoman says: "God is a ghost floating in space." Screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) says that "God is an infantile fantasy, which was necessary when men did not understand what lightning was. God is a cop-out." A Greek janitor thinks that God is "like a fiery flame, so white that it can blind you." "God is all that I cannot understand," says a Roman seminarian. A Boston scientist describes God as "the totality...