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...this were not enough to thrill every mother (and every mother's daughter) in the entire United Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, is also heir to the classiest preserve of royal pomp and privilege left on earth: the British throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...unethical procedure which Rorvik cites as dangers of cloning are prevalent in Darwin's work and are likely to happen again as long as methods are not open to scrutiny by the public and by colleagues. For example, Rorvik's claim in the book that a millionaire without an heir can be considered a suitable subject for cloning is, at the very least, questionable...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Cloning Around | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

That struggle will evidently continue to be led by Mao's relatively youthful (56) designated heir, Hua Kuo-feng, who is both Premier and Party Chairman. At week's end reports out of Peking said that Hua had been re-elected Premier, while Party Vice Chairman Yeh Chien-ying, 79, would also be China's equivalent to chief of state. Earlier, there had been speculation that the third member of the ruling troika, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, the wily pragmatist who had been a leading victim of the Cultural Revolution, might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Edsel Ford II, 29, an heir to the automobile fortune, on his new job as assistant managing director of Ford Australia: "There is no silver spoon in Ford. I think that's lucky. They treat me like any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1978 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...with his wife, Soraya, and told to hold himself ready to return to his country. While in Rome, Soraya received a visit from an American gynecologist who had been summoned from the United States by Kim Roosevelt. She had been trying for some time to produce a son and heir for the shah, and had failed to do so... The gynecologist went into a complicated explanation of the fertility cycle, the waywardness of ovaries, and why it was difficult to make eggs drop at the right moment. She must just keep on trying and keep her husband 'interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cold War's First Family | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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