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In honor of his 31st birthday, the Duke of Edinburgh got his first royal salute: 41 guns in Hyde Park at noon, topped by 62 salvos an hour later.
In Havana, where he is riding high with the Batista government and trying his hand as an all-round entrepreneur (cellulose fiber, drugs, a drive-in theater), Elliott Roosevelt admitted that he had asked for permission to put one more iron in the fire. Elliott's $1,600,000 proposal: erection of four disposal plants to convert Havana's garbage into fertilizer.
In Liége for the first time since he ascended Belgium's throne, young (21) King Baudouin was welcomed by thousands of his cheering subjects. But when two little girls asked him for his autograph, His Majesty stiffened. "I can't," said he firmly. "I must not create a precedent."
Denmark's robust, tattooed King Frederik IX yielded to an impulse. Upon his return to the palace after one of his regular swims at Copenhagen's State High School for Physical Education, His Majesty calmly announced to his family: "For a long time I have had the most ardent desire to push the bath attendant into the pool. Today I did push him in."