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Died. Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, 49, King of Nepal, whose proposed (but never accomplished) visit to the U.S. last November caused a stir because he planned to bring both of his queens; of a coronary occlusion, in Zurich...
Miami Beach's tensely anxious Sans Souci Hotel readied the full treatment for its imminent guests, the touring Shah of Iran and his luscious Queen Soraya. The protocol section of the U.S. State Department was also concerned: it wanted to restrain the overzealous hotel from whipping up the Shah's visit into a lather of commercialized hullabaloo. The Sans Souci insouciantly proceeded to run a red carpet from its lobby to the street, redecorate a 16-room wing as the imperial suite, paint the Shah's coat of arms on every royal door in sight. Hardheaded...
...List of Britain's Queen Elizabeth was published with a rare omission: no famous author or actor appeared in the roster of nearly 2,000 British subjects who made the grade. The Aga Khan, 77, who as holder of four British knighthoods can already call himself Sir Mahomed Shah, got a fancy new title, mostly for his aid to Moslems in Britain's East African colonies: Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Britain's urbane ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, 50, joined the Aga Khan in the same order. Australia...
During their New York stay the Shah and Queen attended two hit plays. Tea and Sympathy, and The Teahouse of the August Moon, and two musicals, Fanny and Pajama Game, and danced stiffly at the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Then they took off for Washington in President Eisenhower's Super-Constellation. Columbine III. No information on the doctors' findings reached the public...
Mosque & Motel. One morning the Shah, trailed by a procession of aides and photographers, walked from the embassy to Washington's mosque ("It is the tradition," the Shah explained, "to approach a mosque on foot"). Another morning, he got up early for a canter along the bridle paths of Rock Creek Park. After days of partying, the Shah and his retinue (14 persons altogether) packed their bags (95 pieces, totaling 5,000 Ibs.) and took off for San Francisco. This week Their Majesties will drive to Los Angeles, stopping overnight in a motel, arriving in time for Christmas...