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...address later in the day before the massed members of the Canadian Parliament, who banged their desks in a traditional salute for Jackie when she entered the gallery, and banged them again for the President when he appeared behind the floodlit lectern just below the Speaker's throne...
...decision, Saudi Arabia is leaving behind a two-year stretch of austerity that a man of his royal tastes found painful-even though the program was useful and was ably run by Saud's younger brother, Crown Prince Feisal, 56, the hawk-nosed heir to the throne. Taking over virtually all powers in 1958, Feisal proceeded to turn in surplus budgets and stabilize the faltering rial at five to the dollar. He clipped the King's and the princes' spending money until they howled. He also patched up Saud's feud with Nasser, who was understandably...
...made a ceremonial visit to Jiddah. If the reforms come too swiftly-or if spending gets out of hand-Talal and Tariki could find themselves out and the Feisal crowd back in. The dilemma, according to one Saudi, is that "Feisal 'feels that reforms will topple the throne, while Talal feels that without them the throne will topple." But both are loyal to the King, and depend on him. Says Tariki: "Change and reform are in the air and have the support of the King. Our royal family didn't create Saudi Arabia, but it does hold Saudi...
...forebears' fabled prerogatives; but he will need all the sympathy he can get for his proposed second marriage (the first, to Queen Dina, ended in divorce in 1957 after she had borne him a daughter). Hussein has lately been mending his fences with Nasser to secure his shaky throne, and a British Queen in Amman is hardly to Cairo's liking. Moreover, two-thirds of Jordan's population are Palestinian refugees from British partition days. Hussein's choice of a British girl was made in defiance of the counsel of his closest advisers, and split...
...daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, and toward the end of the 6th century she married the powerful Authari, King of the warlike Lombards. Shortly thereafter, in 591, Authari died suddenly, some said by poison. Normally the death of a King would have precipitated a bloody scramble for the throne among local chiefs, with Theodolinda as a sort of door prize. But in the few years she had been Queen, Theodolinda had become so beloved among the Lombards that they insisted that she alone choose which husband and King she wanted...