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Thus, in just about the shortest story he ever wrote, Ernest Hemingway 40 years ago described King Constantine and Queen Sophia as they were clinging to the unstable throne of Greece. Last week Constantine's son, King Paul, was also in his gardened palace at Tatoi, outside Athens, and the whiskey was still good. But unlike his father, Paul did not want to go to America. He wanted to go to Britain, and his Premier would not let him, thereby precipitating a first-class political crisis...
...homeland for the first time in 44 years, Austria's long-established coalition government trembled last week. For the mustached Herr Doktor is Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne...
...five when Austria rebelled against the Habsburg monarchy and overthrew his father, Emperor Karl, in the aftermath of World War I. The new republican government exiled the royal family and passed a "Habsburg Law," which banned their return to Austrian soil until they renounced all claims to the throne and formally embraced the democratic constitution. Karl regally refused, and after his death in 1922 the royal family settled in Spain, where the Empress Zita set up a modest court...
Legend to the contrary, says Rowland, no statue of Buddha was made for centuries after his death because it was believed that he had passed into a realm of invisibility and could be represented only by such symbols as an empty throne for his Enlightenment or a great wheel for his first preaching. But eventually, the faithful came to hunger for something closer to the Buddha, and the great procession of images began...
...Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and Peter the Great. Unfortunately, Producer George Vicas could not contain his own technical enthusiasms, and the historical sequences were full of nervous irritations and distracting trickery. Zoomar lenses dived into paintings to catch "significant detail." Great doors closed by themselves. Behind the double throne of the boy czars, Ivan and Peter, was a hole in the curtain through which their sister Sophia used to advise them. Sophia's picture suddenly popped into the hole...