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...down the state's internal, external and financial policies." Feisal immediately took over control of the Saudi armed forces, fired the King's two top advisers on defense and the budget. Behind the ancient veil of the remote Arabian capital, change had finally overtaken the proud throne raised to conquest and splendor by the "Lion of the Desert," the late King Ibn Saud...
Pile & Putter. While Lucy moves into the dressing room that Ginger Rogers once occupied as queen of RKO and keeps an eye on the commissary (she hates "bad studio food"), Desi will reign in an oak-and-leather throne room, surrounded by deep pile, a disappearing bar, and a putter alongside the desk. The new Hollywood tycoon is already awakening echoes of older ones. As workmen remodeled buildings for directors, producers and writers, he said: "Those cubbyholes were no good. Our offices are going to be twice that size. These are creative people, and creative people gotta have room...
...Atonist, and she spots Baby Moses in the bulrushes, where his captive Levite mother has left him as a sacrifice to the water-snake god. Enekhas-Amon takes the infant, reappears at court months later pretending that the child is hers. One day, she dreams. Moses will ascend the throne and restore Aton to his sole supremacy...
...Cologne, where she is visiting her father, the Iranian Ambassador to West Germany, childless Soraya said she was prepared to "sacrifice my own happiness" because the Shah "considers it necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation...
...pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...