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Jann Wenner, 28, is known around the San Francisco offices of the biweekly Rolling Stone as "Citizen Wenner." The more or less jocular analogy to William Randolph Hearst is apt: Wenner is a brilliant, brash autocrat with an eye for lucrative markets and talented writers. Perceiving a vast audience for a rock-music magazine, he borrowed $7,500, produced his first issue in 1967. Since then, the staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general...
With his commission thus firmly in hand, Gijsen came home to rule the diocese like an autocrat, pleasing some of the conservative laymen but alienating his mostly progressive clergy. The diocesan chapter is now so outraged that it has appealed to the Vatican for intervention. Last month, Cardinal Alfrink himself flew to Rome to offer his services as a mediator...
Even so, the placid, good-humored Malagasy people, an assortment of Malay-Polynesians and Africans, hardly complained until a year ago. Then, a violent revolt in the south against the regime of President Philibert Tsiranana left 800 dead. Tsiranana, an ailing autocrat who had ruled his country since its independence from France in 1960, responded by jailing 500 troublemakers. He also blamed it all on the U.S. embassy and expelled the American ambassador as well as five members of the embassy staff...
Their styles of operation are almost as different as the men themselves. Bing, stern and aloof, is a caste-conscious, immaculately tailored autocrat invariably trailed by a deferential retinue, Sir Rudolf to almost everyone. Gentele, 54, hale and smiling, is a democrat in a loose-fitting sports jacket who makes it his business to know everyone down to stagehands and chorus members, many of whom simply call him Goeran...
Nicholas is of course the central figure. He was weak in character and judgment, an old-fashioned autocrat surrounded by decaying institutions, unable to cope with the new ideas and technological improvements that were completely changing his own 19th-century world. The revolution that had rocked Europe in both philosophic and industrial terms since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 did not penetrate the unfriendly borders of Russia. Nicholas felt a token Parliament, the Duma, would stem the revolutionary tide of 1905. He approved a nationalistic birthday celebration of the 300th year of Romanov reign and relaxed in his luxurious...