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Royal Schooling. Over a long luncheon and until late into the afternoon, avoiding mention of Don Juan's own claims to the throne (Franco has never forgiven him for certain anti-Franco remarks made in 1945), they discussed the education of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. The 17-year-old Juanito has just completed his secondary education at Madrid's aristocratic St. Isideo high school and is at present staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters...
...Farouk. Fawzia had no son, and Princess Shahnaz, the only child of that marriage, is barred from succession by Iranian law. Since the death of the Shah's brother, Prince Ali Reza, in a plane crash last month (TIME, Nov. 15), there is no heir to the Peacock Throne of Persia...
...honey-blonde hair and emerald eyes of Marilyn Smuin, 19, a sophomore at Pasadena City College, plus her wellrounded personality (bust and hips 35 in., waist 25 in.), won her the throne as Queen of the Roses (66th annual tournament), and all the New Year's Day hoop-te-do attending the big event, the Rose Bowl football game...
...pray that in all the deliberations here begun Thou wilt save us from pride of opinion, from intolerance and prejudice, and from lightly ascending any throne of judgment...
Last week the U.S. Senate met to consider censure action against Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and the ascension to judgment's throne was rocky indeed. Within minutes after the chaplain finished his opening prayer, Joe McCarthy was fighting the only way he knows how, with tooth, nail and knee, to make the debate one of the most acrimonious and personally bitter in Senate history...