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Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21. Europe's reigning royalty was conspicuously absent, but 180 lesser bloods crammed into the small Russian Orthodox chapel, where only three seats were set up-for the three onetime monarchs among them. While Bulgaria's ex-Queen loanna and Albania's ex-Queen Geraldine democratically declined to use theirs, Farouk sat down in lonely, perspiring splendor...
...generations of Labor Party theorists; in London. A descendant of British freeholders who fought for Cromwell and Parliament, he was a passionate believer in equality, turned down an army commission and fought instead as a sergeant in World War I, later spurned a peerage, lived as a gentle, absent-minded professor. He left his intellectual mark on hundreds of workers, whom he ardently taught in night classes, condemning the ethics of capitalism while setting out in righteous contrast the moral principles of a cooperative order...
Named after the late conductor, it was organized by the Women's Division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York; contestants were invited from every nation in the U.N. A total of 32 pianists from 15 countries, including 18 from the U.S., responded. Notably absent were contestants from any Iron Curtain country. Russia explained that it would probably send someone next year, but needed time to "prepare...
...India. Nearly half of them are Roman Catholics, who, like the Moslems of Kashmir and Pakistan, worry about how they would be treated in Hindu India. And there is almost no evidence that the Hindu population of the Portuguese colonies feels particularly oppressed. Native Goans have been noticeably absent from the anti-Portuguese demonstrations and marches staged by India...
...will play on the Cadet first line if Stonehouse is absent is not yet definite. The regular wings are Dick Peterson and Bill Highston, but these men may be switched around completely if Stonehouse is not there. Highston scored 16 goals last winter...