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...Jaime Borbón y Battenberg, 55, twice-married oldest living son of Alfonso XIII and uncle of Juan Carlos, who looks every inch a king but once renounced his right of succession because he is a deaf-mute. Last week Don Jaime rescinded his renunciation and laid claim to the throne as head of the house of Borb...
...conference did pass a resolution approving orderly civil rights demonstrations "in rare instances where legal recourse is unavailable." When one Southern delegate complained that the statement was an incitement to anarchy, Bosley answered: "We won't give an inch on this principle." In other mood-showing votes, the conference set up a fund to help Methodist ministers who may have suffered "economic deprivation" by joining in civil rights activities, and forbade church agencies to discriminate in their hiring practices...
During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...swimsuit designer for California's Rose Marie Reid, finds that German girls today tend to be skinnier of hip than young Americans and Italians. This "generation of fashion models," as one approving editor calls it, averages 5 ft. 6 in. in the 14-25 age bracket, one inch taller than other European girls, and it boasts unbeatable vital statistics...
...Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a king." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughs, almost dances, often stumbles, always touches; he moves convincingly from what someone has called worldly authority to spiritual authority, and in the last great scene he creates compassion, just...