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Last month Saud's jobless sons convinced their father that he would lose his throne unless he acted. In keeping with their talents, the princes' plot was simple. A tour of western Saudi Arabia was scheduled for the King, including the key cities of Taif, Mecca and Jidda. When Saud reached Jidda, he was to issue a royal decree dismissing Prince Feisal and his reformist Cabinet. Then the royal family would once more be in charge...
...years, Don Juan de Borbon, Pretender to the Spanish throne, has been living in exile. Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco stonily forbade him to return to Madrid-until last week...
...Crown Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal in a now-legendary ceremony at the capital city of Gangtok (TIME, March 23). Last week, when the crown prince's 70-year-old father, Maharajah Sir Tashi Namgyal, died of cancer in a Calcutta nursing home, Hope and her husband mounted the throne of the mountain-locked Himala yan kingdom. The formal coronation will take place after one year's mourning, the precise date to be calculated by the court astrologers...
...Duke Max lived to see the opera house rebuilt, and by the time his grandson, mad King Ludwig, was on the Bavarian throne, productions there had reached such a pitch of grandeur that the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde was largely responsible for Prussia's defeat of the Royal Bavarian Army in 1866; after the opera, there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said...
Smashed Gangsters. All his early opponents underestimated him. An army commander, who boasted that he had only to lift a phone to stage a coup, soon found himself out of a job and out of the country. Playboy Emperor Bao Dai challenged Diem at the polls, and found his throne voted out of existence by 98% of the citizens. Diem smashed the gangsters who ran Saigon and routed the armies of the religious sects-with the help of the general who last week supplanted him. He also launched a comprehensive land reform program and, on a grass-roots tour...