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...hours left until post time, Campo's Media is just one of at least five contenders who have a legitimate chance to run down the currently undisputed king of the three-year olds. Which is somewhat surprising, considering that a few short months ago Foolish Pleasure was the accepted heir to Secretariat's throne, an odds-on choice to become the second Triple Crown winner in 27 years...
...tung. In the midst of these heady successes, Chiang took a portentous step in his personal life, marrying Soong Meiling, a delicately beautiful, Wellesley-educated younger sister of Sun Yat-sen's widow. In doing so he put aside his first wife, the mother of his son and heir, Taiwan's current Premier Chiang Ching-kuo; he became a convert to Christianity before the wedding...
...Saud is that in moments of crisis its members stand together. Last week the princes demonstrated family solidarity when, in accordance with a prearranged plan, they named Crown Prince Khalid, 62, successor to the assassinated King Faisal and his half brother Fahd, 53, the new Crown Prince and heir apparent...
...brothers, who wanted to limit the power and influence of the omnipresent Sudeiris; for example, Prince Sultan is Minister of Defense, Prince Ahmed is deputy governor of Mecca, while Prince Salman is governor of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Fahd probably had the strength to displace Khalid as heir apparent, but to avoid a devastating family fight he agreed to the compromise under which Khalid would become King and he would be named Crown Prince...
Prince Fahd, on the other hand, is likely to be the most dynamic heir apparent that Saudi Arabia has ever had. In both style and personality, the affable, perpetually smiling Fahd is a sharp contrast to the dour, ascetic Faisal. Nonetheless the two men worked well together. "Fahd was like the student to the professor," remarked a Western diplomat in Riyadh last week. "In many ways he is a copy of King Faisal...