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Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...
...fence with a scimitar in the slashing Arab style. "My boy," said the King, "I want you to come always to me and try to learn what you can from what you witness at my palace. Who knows? The time may come when you will replace me on the throne...
...dubbed it "Rainier Roulette." Although hundreds of U.S. and European correspondents were preparing to cover the wedding of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly of MGM, it looked as though only the luckiest kind of a chance would get any of the working press into the throne room and cathedral. Before leaving...
When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead Tsar's Winter Palace, gleefully had himself photographed on the throne, and used the imperial bed for a director's seat. Restaging the revolution with the nightly help of 3000 citizens, Eisenstein broke more palace windows in 1927 than had the real revolutionaries ten years before...
Last year Sihanouk abdicated the throne, became his own Premier and promulgated a brave pro-Western anti-Communist policy. But after a Tammany-style general election (which he won 100%), Sihanouk found the responsibilities of the premiership niggling, and appointed himself a kind of freewheeling plenipotentiary of foreign affairs...