Purple Raiment

As Chancellor of Wales University, the Duke of Edinburgh traveled to its college at Swansea, put on a black and gold cap and gown and gave the students a bit of advice for the future. Some of his tips: "There is great wealth of scientific and technical knowledge waiting to be used . . . Forces of prosperity are know-how and the will to work." He ended his speech with the college motto: "Cweddw crefft heb ei dawn" (Technical skill is sterile without inspiration).

Young Prince Charles, 3 1/2, who automatically became the Duke of Cornwall with the accession of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, became a party of the first part in his first real-estate deal. The little parish of Kingswear in Devon wanted to buy five acres of his land for a children's play park and finally managed to scrape up the -L-5 ($14) which the Duchy of Cornwall said would do for a token payment.

In Shiraz, a city famed for its poets and fine wine, the Shah of Iran dedicated Iran's first municipal water system, statues of himself and his father, and a memorial to the Persian poet Saadi. Later he went horseback riding, and finished the week with a painful limp. As he stopped near a stream to water his horse, the horse shied and caught the Shah with a vicious kick above the ankle.

During a few spare minutes of sightseeing in Manhattan, Prince Suksawat of Thailand, who went to Princeton from 1931 to 1933, paid a dressing-room visit to Actor Yul Brynner who plays the part of the prince's grandfather in The King and I. How was the Prince addressed? The correct title, he said, was "Your Serene Highness," but his friends call him "Ned."

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