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Born. To King Hassan II, 36, autocratic ruler of trouble-plagued Morocco; and Lalla Latifa, 21, daughter of a Berber tribal chieftain: their third child, second daughter; in Rabat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 8, 1965 | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...heard that "Dean Martin sent a telegram to Frank saying, 'I've got Scotch older than she is.' " For the weekend, the Southern Breeze dropped anchor off the Kennedy compound near Hyannis Port. Frank had been there before and, as befitted the courtesies due one clan chieftain from another, his first move was to pay a courtesy call on old Joe Kennedy. They spent an hour together, and etiquette naturally suggested a return call. Boston Globe Photographer Edward Jenner got an urgent tip that Jackie Kennedy herself would board the Southern Breeze for dinner. Jenner and three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Voyage of the Southern Breeze | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...rate, they will leave in style. Last week Nauru's elected chieftain, Hammer deRoburt, finished hammering out a contract with its principal phosphate customers-Australia, New Zealand, Britain-that will assure the island's 500 families a kitty of $225 million by the time the phosphate runs out. Under the agreement, deRoburt, 42, more than trebled his people's royalties (to $1.50 a ton, retroactive to July 1, 1964) and extracted yet another price boost (to $1.97), effective next year. The Australian government, which administers the island as a U.N. trust territory, will hold most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pacific: A Tight Little Isle, With Life-Insured Style | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Died. Efrain González, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 18, 1965 | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...father, also a chieftain, dallied with a humble woman of another tribe. This was inexcusable royal behavior, and so the son was contemptuously named after the intestinal beetles, iShaka, that the Zulus held responsible for all illegitimate births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Courage & Assegais | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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