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...paper date back to 1749. That was the year that Ernst Henrich Berling, a Copenhagen printer, secured a license to send news through the royal mail. The license has long since expired, along with Frederik V, the monarch who granted it. Frederik IX now sits on the throne. Ernst Berling, too, died long ago. But six successive generations of Berlings have preserved Tidende's title as the oldest newspaper in the world...
...predictions were wrong. During 22 months in power, Hassan, 33, has deftly played off squabbling left-wing groups against one another, at the same time raising the prestige of the Istiqlal political party, which led the fight for independence and made the throne the symbol of nationalism and freedom. Hassan, however, is more than just a symbol. Today, from the royal palace in Rabat, he rules his California-size kingdom of 12 million subjects with the assurance of a sultan, which is precisely the way Morocco was ruled for 13 centuries before...
...ceremonies for three new saints in St. Peter's Basilica. Later in the week, appearing at an audience for 1,200 (his first since his recovery from anemia), he entered the Vatican's Clementine Hall briskly, but accepted help in mounting the three steps to the golden throne. Cheerily expressing the hope that he would be around to see the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council before Christmas of 1963, he said: "One year is a long time. I may not be here. If I'm not there certainly will be another Pope...
...Perched on the loftiest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our own behind. -Montaigne...
Born. To King Simeon II, 25, King of Bulgaria, who was deposed from his throne at the age of nine by the Communists after World War II, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 26, jet-haired light of Madrid's aristocratic high life: their first child, a boy; in Madrid...