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...Iraq that challenged his all-Arab pretensions, Hussein's distaste for the Iraqi regime that came to power by killing his King-cousin. In a move calculated to enhance Nasser's claim to be the friend of all Arab nations and to bolster Hussein on his precarious throne, the colonel and the King made up, agreed to try to be friends as they once were (see cut), arranged to exchange ambassadors again next month...
FEBRUARY BABY? asked the News Chronicle, but all the palace would say was that the royal personage would be born some time "early next year." If a boy, the child would take precedence over Princess Anne, who will be nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
Kings Must Please. Mademoiselle led a life of rueful anticlimax. In a setting where devious femininity was an accepted tactic, Mademoiselle was a blunt, soldierly Amazon famed for her huge nose. Obviously destined for a European throne, she rejected princes and kings who proposed to her or were proposed for her-Charles II of England, Alfonso VI of Portugal, Philip IV of Spain. With an annual income of nearly $1,000,000, she was the richest princess in Europe; yet the man who raided her fortune the most shamelessly was her own weak-spined father, the Duke of Orleans...
...flower-bedecked throne he announced that he would not become a U.S. citizen, that the return match with Floyd Patterson would probably be in Los Angeles. Later, with ballpoint pen in hand, he autographed the prettily preened neck of Movie Star Bibi Anderson, added: "It will last longer if you varnish it." Everyone howled...
...royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through streets swarming with mosquitoes for the swearing-in of the 109 successful candidates in Nepal's first elections for M.P.s. More than half belong to the Prime Minister...