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...replaces General Nguyen Van Manh, a portly, indecisive officer who has presided over the steady disintegration of the government's Delta position. In II Corps, which comprises the Central Highlands, General Lu Lan, a respected combat officer, took over from General Vinh Loc, a relative of deposed Emperor Bao Dai, who had earned himself the sobriquet "Lord of the High Plateau." And, in an effort to remove some of the temptations of leadership, Thieu last week decided that henceforth province chiefs would report directly to Saigon rather than to their corps commanders...
...before the action of the play begins in 1922, an Italian noble man (Kenneth Haigh) had his horse tripped by a rival for his mistress' favors. After the fall he went mad, imagining himself to be the character he had been impersonating in the pageant, the 11th century Emperor Henry IV of Germany. He lived in a villa complete with throne, courtiers and artifacts of the period. For the first twelve years after his accident, the pseudo Emperor lived out this illusion in bona fide in sanity; for the last eight he has done so in ironic lucidity...
...portrait of his young love come to life in the person of her daughter. Seeing the elder and the younger woman side by side does indeed shock the pseudo Henry-to the point of stabbing his old love rival to death. By this sudden act of murder, the Emperor loses his freedom and is imprisoned in the illusions and fantasies of which he was previously the master...
...Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally identified, the Fogg's Mitten says that "there is no question" but that it is the brutal but brilliant emperor Caracalla (A.D. 188-217) who murdered his brother (and co-emperor) in order to secure sole power, put to death some 20,000 of his brother's supporters, but also adorned Rome with many handsome public buildings. Imperial statues such as this were set up both in homes...
Though the time has passed when eyes were piously averted to avoid soiling Japan's Emperor Hirohito with a commoner's glance, the Emperor, 66, still enjoys nearly hermetic privacy within his wooded 200-acre estate in Tokyo. Now the hounds of modernism are baying over the palace grounds. A 36-story skyscraper is going up a mile from the palace, and court chamberlains have made the ghastly discovery that anyone with a pair of 10-power binoculars can peer straight into the Emperor's living quarters. A quick planting of large evergreens ought to solve that...