Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that all signs point to "a very violent Viet Minh push in Laos soon," the Communists apparently having given up for now their hope of driving the French out of the Hanoi delta. Clark also had a 25-minute chat and a few sips of dry champagne with Emperor Bao Dai. The general made a hit by remarking: "The French here are making really efficient use of arms we deliver to them, and surely don't need to be stuffed with advice on how to use them...
...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...
...last week by the common fate of all men. The event was so big that only the simplest words could form his epitaph: he was the most powerful man of his time-the most feared and hated. He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
...Emperor of Japan is a stooped, middle-aged man whose greatest pleasure in life is marine biology. He was against the war and the militarists. He is no deity and doesn't want to be. He even likes the idea of Japan as a democracy. But he is also, perhaps more than any man alive, the creature of centuries of rigid tradition. So when a factory worker tried to shake Hirohito's hand during one of his democratic postwar tours, the Emperor said: "Let's do it the Japanese way"-and they exchanged bows...
...command of the Japanese language, he was detailed to the job of interrogating prisoners of war. He remained less than a year before he was discharged, but in March 1949 he was back again as a correspondent for TIME & LIFE. His Five Gentlemen of Japan are real people: Emperor Hirohito; Fumio Shimizu, a wartime vice admiral, now an engineer; Tadao Yamazaki, a Tokyo newspaperman; Hideya Kisei, a steelworker; Sakaji Sanada, a farmer. In Author Gibney's hands, they are far more than sociological types-or slick stereotypes. Each of them has his own real problems; the Emperor...