Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likely successor to Ho as President is Premier Pham Van Dong, 59, who already presides over much of the government's day-to-day business and is by far the most visible man in the Hanoi hierarchy. The son of a mandarin who was the private secretary to Emperor Duy Tan, Dong became a nationalist during his student days, and in 1925 went to Canton and joined Ho, who was already training Communist cadres for revolution in Viet Nam. They have been together ever since. Dong headed Ho's delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference, was made Premier...
...obsession with the profusion of one's hair. Aside from your Essay, which is admittedly an observant comment on the trend of the times, 1 am informed in that same issue that David Bellinger is "balding," Jerry Rubin is "wild-haired," Judge W. Harold Cox is "white-thatched," Emperor Rosko is "lion-maned" etc. Is there some deep hidden meaning that is escaping me? Am I being psychologically brainwashed...
...symphonies and operas. He studied under von Karajan then and now the foremost conductor in Germany, who wrote that George is hochbegabt, highly gifted, very fine praise indeed. I have seen this letter and one from Richter, the pianist, saying how much he enjoyed performing with George. Once the Emperor of Ethiopia come to Berlin and admired Geogre's work and invited him to Africa to organize a symphony orchestra there. George went and has pictures to show...
...place, in fact, is safe from the rock jockeys any more. Now that the BBC has gone mod with a new pop station called Radio One, Britain is jumping to U.S.-style disk jockeys. The most popular is lion-maned Emperor Rosko, 24, who is better known in Hollywood as Producer Joe Pasternak's son Michael. Rosko sports a marmalade-colored fur coat and travels in a Rolls-Royce with his bodyguard, tapes his show and sends it to Radio One from Paris, where, speaking passably good French, he is also the country's No. 1 disk jockey...
Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...