Word: autocratic
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...Castro came to power, Halper spent three days with him in his eastern Sierra Maestra hideout in April 1958 and there first began to suspect the ultimate direction of this romantic-seeming revolutionary, so quick to execute those he disagreed with. He described Castro then as "democrat by philosophy, autocrat by personality." In recent months so many Cuban exiles have stopped by to see Halper in Manhattan that "they said I ran the Cuban underground railroad in New York." Shuttling between Miami and New York last week he spent many hours with Miró Cardona (the man on this week...
...Gallon Hat. Only a few months ago, Hassan complained impatiently to a friend: "Here I am, 31, and I haven't ruled yet." Last week the unanswered question was how Hassan would rule. His father was a benevolent autocrat who had authorized a "consultative" assembly in 1956 but had never permitted national elections. He chose his own Premiers, who were responsible only to him. But he was hailed as the man who'se stubborn resistance wrested Moroccan independence from the French, widely admired as a de voted family man, revered by the devout as the spiritual head...
...salubrious beginnings were not to everyone's taste. Politicians complained that it neglected such useful arts as carpentry and blacksmithing. But it had the enormous defense of constitutional autonomy. The regents were also temporarily tamed by tempestuous President (1899-1919) Benjamin Ide Wheeler, a white-mustached autocrat who wore cavalry boots and galloped about campus on a white charger. Wheeler unintentionally created another freedom. His highhanded ways provoked a faculty revolt in 1919 that established the strong Academic Senate...
While hereditary estates slip through his fingers, Don Fabrizio is still so much the autocrat of his own dinner table as to curl silver spoons into hoops with his powerful fist during gusts of paternal rage. His sons are sulky, his daughters mute and brittle. His pious, hysterical wife chills the prince's ardors by making the sign of the cross in bed. The lusty prince comforts himself with a peasant mistress in Palermo and scandalizes his docile confessor-in-residence by forcing the poor priest to come along for the nighttime carriage ride...
...American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Christopher Plummer, Anne Francis, Ann Harding and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Autocrat and Son, about the early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Color...