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Ever since he died last October, King Sisavang Vong has been waiting. His body, suitably embalmed with formaldehyde, crouches in a throne-shaped coffin in the Royal Palace in Luangprabang in the fetal position, for the Buddhist monks say, "As we came into this world, so we shall leave it." The dead King is dressed in his most glittering robes and wears a gem-encrusted conical crown. His gaze is turned toward the wide, murmuring Mekong River where during his long life of 74 years he loved to watch canoe races and fireworks displays, often in the company of some...
...Toppled Throne. Despising the chamberlains as "stoneheads," the Japanese people look to young Prince Akihito, 26, and his commoner bride, Princess Michiko, 24, as the monarchy's last and best hope. The proposed visit of the young couple to the U.S. in May (Michiko's first child is expected in March) has been taken as evidence that when Akihito mounts the throne he will not become a prisoner of the chamberlains like his father. Thereupon the seven chamberlains urged postponement of Akihito's trip until well after President Eisenhower's visit to Japan in June...
Last May in his capacity as Chief Supervisor of Iranian Students Abroad, the Shah's son-in-law Ardashir Zahedi discovered Farah Diba, the pretty young Iranian art student in Paris who last month ascended the Peacock Throne as the Shah's third wife (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week, for this and other services to the crown, tall, handsome Zahedi was appointed Iran's new Ambassador...
Mantsebo's harsh treatment of Bereng -the rightful heir to the throne-was certain to arouse old hatreds, and all the Basuto could only hope it did not provoke another wave of medicine murder...
...silver-trimmed black uniform, tall, courtly Governor General George Philias Vanier, 71, first French Canadian to serve as the Queen's Viceroy in Canada (TIME, Sept. 21), had arrived to open Parliament. In the crowded Senate chamber, he read his first Speech from the Throne. By his side, regal in red velvet and diamonds, was his handsome wife Pauline...