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...There is a spiritual dimension to leadership, which this Administration has already recognized." Recalling Lyndon Johnson's assumption of the presidency after John Kennedy's assassination, Graham quoted the prayer of King Solomon upon ascension to the throne of Israel after the death of his father...
...first received public notice as a war correspondent during the Boer War. In 1900, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, he was elected to the House of Commons, where he served--except for the years 1922-1924--until October, 1964. His Parliamentary career was the longest in British history...
...SAUDI ARABIA sent an estimated $55 million flowing to Beirut, meaning that ex-King Saud has finally given up hope of regaining his throne from his half brother King Feisal. Were Saud determined to fight for his crown, he would instead be converting some of his considerable foreign assets into Saudi Arabian rials to ship home and use in bribing Bedouin sheiks to revolt against Feisal. Meanwhile, money is beginning to flow back into Saudi Arabia, too, from rich Saudis convinced Feisal means business and is in power for good...
Born. To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 52, scholarly pretender to the Austrian throne until 1961, when he renounced his claim; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 39: their seventh child, second son; in Munich...
...tame monks to collaborate with the regimes, decided to boycott the meeting, charging that it was dominated by the West. Living evidence of Red suppression was the conference's guest of honor, the Dalai Lama, who has been in exile in India since Peking drove him from his Tibetan throne in 1959. With pointed indirection he only noted that, "although material progress is better than a thousand years ago, mental suffering still exists or has gotten worse." Indonesian Delegate Willyse Prachna Suriya was on hand to equate Sukarno's socialism with the teachings of Buddha and to denounce the Malaysians...