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Married. Sahle Selassie, 28, youngest of three sons of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; and Mahtsente Habte Mariam, 22; in Addis Ababa...
...Duce's regime, early Fascist organizer; after long illness; in Rome. Bottai commanded 8,000 blackshirted militia in the 1922 march on Rome that seized power from the king. For his friend Benito, he was Minister of National Education. Governor of Rome, Civil Governor of Addis Ababa, Minister of Corporations. When things looked black in 1943, Bottai discreetly disappeared, later turned up in the French Foreign Legion...
...salute ushered in the sunrise across the eucalyptus-covered hills around Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa. In St. George Cathedral more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later...
...Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa is an unlikely place to find a man who retired to a South Carolina farm this year to spend the rest of his life "fishing and hunting, and lying in the sun, and watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
Personal Life: In 1938 married Lady Patricia Guinness of the wealthy brewing family, and honeymooned in Addis Ababa, which Mussolini's forces had captured. A non-practicing lawyer, he has an income from investments of more than $50,000 a year; his wife's is even higher. A stranger to all sports, he superintends a four-man gardening crew at his Bedfordshire estate, grows flowers in the courtyard of his Belgravia house. Colonials of all creeds, colors and classes stream in to the Lennox-Boyds' frequent house parties...