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...mark with World War I. The last European ruler to play the king game with real gusto was high-living Edward VII. His funeral, on May 20, 1910, was a perfect set piece to illustrate the end of the royal era. Glittering and clanking behind his catafalque came one emperor, nine kings, five heirs apparent, 40 royal highnesses, three queens and four dowager queens. Afterward all of them went back to their thrones and palaces, courtiers and horse guards and watched their world come apart. Within five months, Portugal fired its King Manuel and declared itself a republic, and during...
...Hand. Czechoslovakia's Jiří Trnka is the Chagall of cinema. In his 18 puppet films (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Nightingale), he has bodied forth in speaking forms and singing colors a rich world of the spirit that for almost two decades has floated like a magical island in the grey sea of groupthink called Communism. In this tiny (19 minutes) but weighty puppet picture, Trnka (pronounced Trnka) has come right out with a wry but obviously heartfelt statement of the rights and wrongs of man in a totalitarian society...
...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...
Vice Lord. Some 25,000 Vietnamese live in France, about 60% of them recent political refugees. Though their ranks include six ex-Premiers and hosts of other once-powerful men, their schemes to return to power are little more than stimulating cafe topics. Bao Dai, the French-sponsored Emperor of Viet Nam for 20 years, has all but forgotten the old days before he went into exile in 1954. Cold-shouldered by De Gaulle (the government no longer subsidizes him), Bao Dai is the guest of a count in Lorraine, spends his time hunting or visiting his concubine in Paris...
...personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia's President Tubman and Egypt's Nasser, Ankrah relented. To Accra went a message: turn the imprisoned Guineans loose...