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...hopefuls, the intellectual, left-wing L'Express last week introduced a weirdly different suggestion. It claimed that De Gaulle's own choice as his successor is none other than Henri d'Orleans, 54, Comte de Paris, descendant of King Henri IV, and Pretender to the throne of France. L'Express pointed to the warm personal friendship between the count and De Gaulle, recalled that le grand Charles's earliest political sympathies were monarchist, and noted that the Count's Gaullist leanings had made him a target of a bombing by Secret Army terrorists...
...months 62-year-old King Saud of Saudi Arabia has suffered a succession of intestinal, stomach, chest, circulatory and heart ailments. Often they seem to be aggravated by the swirling political events in his desert capital of Riyadh. After the Yemen rebellion last fall threatened the stability of his throne, Saud's health was so upset that he turned the government over to his able brother, Prince Feisal, and flew to Switzerland for treatment...
...Brookes of Sarawak might have stepped from the pages of a Conrad novel. The first and last English family to occupy an Oriental throne, they fought pirates and hostile sultans, pacified headhunters and brought the white man's law to their cruel, vibrantly beautiful land in northwest Borneo. The Brooke rajahs ruled their Kentucky-size kingdom with the stern dignity of a Victorian paterfamilias, but with humanity and imagination as well; in the annals of colonialism, few dynasties have been so selflessly devoted to their subject's welfare. The first Brooke rajah was James, a wealthy, high-minded...
...Nations announced that the parties embroiled in the Yemen civil war had accepted Bunker's proposal for a U.N. observer team with a double job. It will make sure that Saudi Arabia ends its support of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Imam Mohammed el Badr to the throne he lost seven months ago, and also that Egypt's 28,000-man expeditionary force pulls out as promised...
Married. Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, 26, twelfth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, commoner second son of the twelfth Earl of Airlie; in Westminster Abbey, London (see THE WORLD...