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...William Randolph Hearst Jr., 54, titular heir to his father's empire, the new deal in San Francisco seemed something of a coup, and he could not resist a brag: after all, said Hearst, "we got a whole newspaper for practically nothing." It was certainly a cut-rate way to restore a full link to Hearst's dwindling newspaper chain-now down to twelve, including San Francisco, from a highwater mark of 26. But beyond that, the deal had other significance...
Iran's Tiara. Two of the world's youngest queens won their life of privilege for the oldest of dynastic reasons-the ability to bear an heir. By the constitutions of vast Iran and tiny Jordan respectively, the dynasties of Reza Pahlevi and the House of the Hashemites may continue only so long as the monarch has a son to succeed...
Jordan's Dream Girl. King Hussein of Jordan also divorced his first wife, Egyptian Princess Dina, in 1957 after two years of marriage, one daughter, no heir. A lonely, courageous King on a shaky throne, he finally met "the girl of my dreams" three years later at a party given by the English colonel who was attached to the palace as chief security officer. The girl was his blue-eyed, brown-haired daughter, Toni Gardiner, 20, a merry, fresh-faced high school graduate who shares Hussein's love of fast cars and planes, and was working...
Married. Jamila, 18, second daughter of Pakistan's ramrod President Mohammed Ayub Khan; and Prince Amir Zaib, 24, second son of the Wali of Swat; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ayub's eldest daughter, Naseem, is married to the Wali's first son, the Waliad Aurangzeb, heir apparent to Pakistan's princely state of Swat...
...accusation is based on fabrication. I am not guilty, only intellectually disobedient." But Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito takes a harsh view of intellectual disobedience ; his onetime heir apparent was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison...