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...excitement was in anticipation of this week's pan-African "summit" conference of some 30 African heads of state. Never before had so many leaders of Africa sat down in the same place at the same time, and their proud host, the aging (70) Ethiopian Emperor, was out at the airport in person with his green-and-black Rolls-Royce to greet many of his illustrious guests, including Liberia's President William V. Shadrach Tubman, who arrived five days early so as to squeeze in a state visit...
...German law, Shoriki flunked the civil service exam that would have opened the way to a government career; he joined the Tokyo police force instead. By 1924 he was a deputy police chief, but that year he was sacked in disgrace after having inadequately guarded the prince regent (now Emperor Hirohito) during a botched assassination attempt...
...explorers, discoverers and obsessive questioners; their individuality is not necessarily greater because they chose to die, like Socrates, or smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms in all places and all ages. With them in mind, Kierkegaard said: "The truly extraordinary man is the truly ordinary...
...gait was unhurried, the paunch impressive as a Roman emperor's, the head massive as a Percheron's. Producer Sam Spiegel, to the strains of the theme music from Lawrence of Arabia, was advancing down the aisle of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to accept the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross," includes an interview with Emperor Haile Selassie...