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Jaakko Mikkola's Varsity track team, which last spring set itself up as king of the Ivy League mountain by winning the nonagonals, now finds itself in the embarrassing position of having to bluff its way past some considerably more muscular contenders to the throne. It's not going to be easy...
...British, who put him on his throne, have a firm rein on the impetuous Abdullah. His proud army depends on a yearly British subsidy of $8,000,000, British arms and supplies, and 48 British officers who advise and command it. If British support were withdrawn, Abdullah knows that his Legion would quickly deteriorate into just another ragged Arab band...
...Realm in Stockholm's royal palace, the two houses of Parliament waited. The royal brass band struck up the Song of the King. In walked an old gentleman as precariously thin as a Nordic Don Quixote. He bowed right & left, then took his seat on the ermine-draped throne, beside a taboret bearing the crown which he had never actually worn (he disapproves of elaborate ceremonies). Then Gustaf V, King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends, began his speech from the throne. It was a comfortable occasion. His Majesty had delivered substantially the same speech 40 times...
Galoshes. When Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818, he was afraid that revolutionaries might endanger his throne. "Sire," said one of his ministers, "the only danger to which you are exposed in Sweden is a cold, and you can avoid that by wearing galoshes...
...political changes had taken place in the country during the last years, continued the voice, rendering the monarchy little more than an obstruction in the path of progress. "Consequently," it concluded, "and fully conscious of the importance of the action which we are about to take . . . we abdicate the throne. . . . We give the Rumanian people full freedom to elect its own new form of government...