Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sultan of Johore is 64-year-old Ismail, whose mother was one of Sir Ibrahim's original four Malay wives. But Ismail can rule for only a few weeks in the semi-autocratic fashion of his dead father. Next month Johore will elect an Executive Council headed by a Prime Minister, and the Sultan will become a purely constitutional figurehead. The old days are gone, and the old ways are dying, but even the most nationalist opponents of the late, crotchety Sultan experienced a sense of loss. Said one: "He was Malaya's grand old man. His service...
...miles away in a somber, echoing burial cave, the King-elect, naked and unarmed, stood trial by ordeal. Surrounded by the dusty mummies of eight of his ancestors, Willie Samuriwo kept his solitary vigil two long nights to prove-by escaping animal attack-his right to be King. Outside, whispering, loinclothed sentries sent back word to waiting villagers that the fresh spoor of a lion could be seen at the mouth of the cave, and a lioness had been seen prowling in the vicinity during the night, but neither had molested Willie...
...nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with John Foster Dulles...
...endowment of $10,000, took over as president in 1930. Last week, from the U.S.-Greek-run school in Athens, which tenaciously survived the dictatorship of John Metaxas (1936-41), successive occupations by Italians, Germans and British, and a painful postwar rebuilding, President Davis, 63, announced his resignation. President-elect, picked by Davis during a trip to the U.S. last month: Charles Marion Rice, 52, director of admissions and head of the English department (1941-57) at Connecticut's Choate School...
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, summoned to Rome to help elect a new Pope after the death of Pope Leo XIII, left his desk strewn with papers, borrowed enough money for a ticket, and started for the station. His flock blocked the path. "Bless us once more," they cried. "Come back soon." Cardinal Sarto stretched out his arms. "Dead or alive," he said, "I shall come back...