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...monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan-close friends of the West but hated enemies of the Arab nationalists-face the threat of uprisings at the hands of powerful local friends of the man in Cairo. When King Saud's private Comet plane, equipped with a royal throne, crashed last week against an Italian mountain, killing all 18 aboard, the Saudi Arabs automatically assumed that it had been sabotaged by Nasser agents...
Dressed in dark suit and grey tie, and accompanied by his wife Rada in black veil and grey suit, Adzhubei showed up with other reporters in the Vatican's gilded throne room, listened as the Pope spoke of the church's positive neutrality in the cold war, bowed his head when John gave his blessing. "A beautiful speech," said Adzhubei, who throughout his visit to Rome proudly labeled himself a "confirmed atheist...
...changing of the guard, which I'm sure you'll want to see, so I'll leave you now and see you later at the palace"). Grace in the orphanage, riding into the palace in her Rolls and being greeted by Rainier, Grace in the throne room, Rainier with the kids at the zoo, the whole family putting to sea in the yacht, the Prince and Princess entering the cathedral. And finally Princess Grace signing off with dignified warmth and a generous plug: "Now you've had a look at Monaco, but really...
...that time Tomlinson, dressed in pink robe and wearing a home-made cardboard crown, sat on a portable aluminum throne, at the start of his second tour around the world to name himself king of 101 nations. Yesterday he appeared in the simple garb of a prophet, a blue suit, and lunched in Lowell House with several friends-including a junior he had crowned "prince of the realm" while last at the College...
...grip," writes Canetti, "the central and most often celebrated act of power." The hard, unyielding rows of teeth resemble smoothly polished stone weapons, and in an open mouth often appear menacing. Even the way a person sits in a chair may reveal whether he is, at heart, gripping a throne or a horse or another human being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic instinct is self-preservation. Man is not a "statue," writes Canetti, "with one hand reaching for food and with the other fending off its enemies. His way of procuring...