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High in the Australian bush country northeast of Melbourne, the "slushies" at Timbertop school scarcely paused in their chores when they got the official news: 16-year-old Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will become one of Timbertop's "young old boys" in February. There had been rumors that the prince might transfer from Scotland's Gordonstoun School, and, while royalty is something special at "Australia's Eton," wealthy boys from throughout the world are commonplace there, and the slushies* are pretty blase about such things...
Some of the surprise members: Foreign Minister Subandrio, long regarded as Sukarno's heir apparent, and last week absent on a tour of Sumatra; Air Force Chief of Staff Omar Dani, reputedly a Communist; and Admiral Martadinata, whose fleet has been immobilized for months by a strike of 700 junior naval officers. The restless nation was assured by the rebels that Sukarno was "safe and under protection," and, as an afterthought Untung abolished all military ranks above his own. A new Cabinet was also announced, headed, of course, by Untung...
While there, she gets just mad enough to cry. The episode might be more affecting if Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
...reading success in a lot of tea leaves, invited a movie photographer to film a documentary of their "inevitable" jumping to fame. The What Four: Lillian Pogan on lead guitar, Elizabeth Burke on drums, China Girard on rhythm guitar, and on bass guitar, Diane Hartford, wife of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who invited the group down to the family's New Jersey estate, Melody Farm, to rehearse for their Soft Day's Night...
Training an Heir. Nor is one-man control likely to be reasserted any time soon. Marshall Field V, a Harvard graduate now working at the New York Herald Tribune, will replace his father as a trustee when he turns 25 next May. But he will not become publisher of his father's newspapers until the trustees consider him "sufficiently trained." When his only brother Frederick, now 13, reaches 25, according to the terms set by Marshall Field III, the trust, which now holds two-thirds of the corporation's stock, may be dissolved. Then the two Field brothers...