Word: emperor
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Larger Than Life. One of the most brilliant soldiers of all time, MacArthur stamped out his character and achievement on a full half-century of history. In another age, he might have been an emperor. He envisioned himself as a child of destiny. Like Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, he conceived and fought monumental battles with huge armies, and like those bygone warriors, he viewed his times and his own acts as decisive in history. His triumphs and his failures often thrust him into whirlwinds of international controversy. He generated stubborn loyalties and intense hatreds. He was a realist...
Wrong War? MacArthur capped that great achievement with still another. For nearly six years he was U.S. commander of the Occupation-in effect, the Yankee Emperor of Japan. He gave the Japanese a constitution and a will to create a new life, and for that he was idolized as much as if he had been a god. MacArthur himself enjoyed his new job immensely. Efficient, indefatigable, imperious in everything he did, he struck outsiders as a benign but egocentric despot. MacArthur hardly bothered to listen to what others had to say, for he liked to talk himself. But when...
...venture purports to tell the stories that other publications are too timid to print ("Fact will not hesitate to ask 'Where are the emperor's clothes?' "). But apart from a few efforts to live up to its billing, Fact's two issues suggest that the magazine is be coming a dustbin for the Eros leftovers...
...popular new size is the "King": 80 in. by 78 in. Next most popular is the "Queen": 80 in. by 60 in. On the West Coast, naturally, "Superking" is the thing, 84 in. long but only 72 in. wide, and Manhattan's Sleep Center sells a bed called "Emperor" which is 7 ft. long and 7 ft. wide...
...perhaps, an inevitable ex tension of the long-established French practice of proxy marriage. Napoleon used the Archduke Charles in Vienna as his stand-in at the altar with Marie Lou ise of Austria, while the Emperor stayed comfortably in Paris. And proxy marriages between soldiers and their girls back home became common in World War I. But during the Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed...