Word: emperor
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...father, Emperor Hirohito, is Japan's most famous Sunday marine microbiologist; his brother, Prince Yoshi, is a cytologist; and his son, Prince Hiro, is a confirmed admirer of the elephants at the zoo. With science all around, Crown Prince Akihito himself is no slouch when it comes to ichthyology. He has just finished a treatise on the shoulder blades of the goby fish, and used his 30th birthday press conference to announce a tonic devised to restore the appetite of his wife, Princess Michiko, still ailing after a March abortion. The "particularly effective delicacy," said the prince, consists...
Hong Kong's two Communist dailies last week breathlessly recounted the exploits of one Cheng Ho, a eunuch employed by the third Ming Emperor, whose fleet of junks explored the East African coast 80 years before the Portuguese got there in 1498. Both front page stories, purporting to prove that China and Africa had a long history of "friendly intercourse," celebrated the departure for post-colonial Africa of Communist China's Premier Chou Enlai, who is the grandest panjandrum from Peking ever to visit that continent...
...Mark how Shakespeare predicts such occurrences as this assassination, which one would think was a rare and most improbable event. Brutus, at the body of the murdered emperor, says...
...front and center marched the regal, khaki-clad figure of Charles de Gaulle. At his side was Queen Frederika of Greece. And on either side of them were: King Baudouin of Belgium in army khaki; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, splendid in his decorations and chartreuse sash; West Germany's President Heinrich Lübke; Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal; Korea's President-elect General Park Chung Hee. They, along with 213 other world leaders, headed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, eight blocks away...
Cardinal Cushing began his dissonant, yet moving, intonation of the Mass: "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon him." Suddenly Charles de Gaulle stood upright, facing the altar. He was joined by Emperor Selassie and King Baudouin, and the three chiefs of state stood alone, erect and rigid. Later, because it was a Kennedy favorite, the third chapter of Ecclesiastes was read-almost in monotone-by the Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington: "There is an appointed time for everything ... a time to be born, and a time...