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...Shao-chi, 61, a Moscow-trained theorist with a reputation for getting things done, became president of Red China today. In succeeding to one of Mao Tze-tung's old jobs for a four year term, the tall, light-haired son of a peasant family strengthened his status as heir apparent to the Chinese Communist Party leadership that Mao, 65, retains in the Peiping hierarchy. Peiping radio hailed Liu as "a leader second only to Mao Tze-tung...
...Edward D. Stone's museum for A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford Jr., a ten-story concrete structure that will sit on an island in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Turning his back on the glass-brick walls he used for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Stone has designed a monumental façade of white marble, enriched by porphyry and verd antique marble medallions over the columns of the arcade. Admits Stone: "The resemblance to Venice, the Ca' d'Oro and Doges Palace, is probably unmistakable...
Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...
...television. Back in 1924, the Emperor's wedding had cost $1,500,000; the bill for Akihito's, with all banquets and receptions included, will come to only $140,000. The crowds waved and cheered, but not with the same frenzied banzais that once greeted the heir to the Emperor...
...read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...