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...Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose...
Died. Robert Earl Hughes. 32. plausibly billed as the heaviest man in medical history (6 ft.. 1.041 Ibs.), son of an Illinois farmer, traveling attraction on the carny circuit, probable victim of an incurable disfunction of the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus; of uremia; in Bremen, Ind. With a maximum circumference of 10 ft.. 2 in.. Hughes had trouble getting around, lived in a converted semitrailer truck, which nurses climbed into by ladder to attend his final illness...
...inspectors found it "much decayed, the Floors & Chimneys much sunk." In 1781 the Board of Works bluntly called it "dangerous." In 1832, the year of the great Reform Bill, Earl Grey had to move out of it because it had become uninhabitable, and even Winston Churchill, no man to take a British institution lightly, found it "shaky." Last week, in a special White Paper, Her Majesty's government announced that No. 10 is in worse shape than ever...
...refueling charges were concerned, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl E. T. Smith declared flatly that "the base has not and will not refuel or in other ways service Cuban military aircraft engaged in military operations." But the charges were beside the point. The kidnapings were obviously to get publicity and make Batista look ineffective. In forcing the U.S. to negotiate directly with them for the prisoners' release, the rebels readily accomplished their purpose of the moment...
Married. Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 40, cousin (on the distaff side) of England's Queen Elizabeth II; and Mary Bridget Brennan, 29, Irish-born nurse who met the earl in a London nursing home three years ago, renounced the Roman Catholic faith to become his wife; in Glamis, Scotland...