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...Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 58, fifth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, last week's dilution of ownership, no matter how tiny, could only signify changing times in a life that has seen many changes. When Krupp succeeded to his family's industrial throne in 1943, the word Krupp was synonymous with armaments. The Krupp plants produced the weapons that helped Hitler ravage Europe; by the end of World War II most of the Krupp factories lay in ruins, pounded into rubble by Allied bombers, and Alfried Krupp himself was sentenced to twelve years...
Died. Salote Tupou, 65, Queen of the Tonga (Friendly) Islands, the smiling, sturdy (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) sovereign of some 200 tiny isles in the South Pacific, who acceded to her 1,000-year-old throne in 1918 and, through a booming banana and copra export trade, brought her 70,000 Polynesian subjects such 20th century luxuries as free education, medicare and a four-day work week; of pneumonia; in Auckland...
Another Russian specialist, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that that was an advancement for Shelepin and a demotion for Podgerny. However, he noted, "if people think he's the heir apparent, chances are he won't assume the throne." He described Shelepin as a man of "cool intelligence." He's a kind of McGeorge Bundy figure, only more sinister," he said...
...plot is surefire. Beautiful young Queen of Scotland takes a lover, plots to kill off her sottish husband, succeeds but loses her throne and flees into the hands of her homely rival, Queen Elizabeth of England, who throws her into prison and, some years later, has her beheaded...
...most spectacular of Conrad's adventures is related in The Arrow of Gold. The adventure began when Conrad, then only 19, was running guns off the Spanish coast for the Carlist Pretender to the Spanish throne. Pursued by a Spanish warship, the captain ran the ship on the rocks. All aboard swam safely to shore, hid in a cellar until the way to France was clear...