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...many outstanding companies, including the Provincetown Players, appearing at the Playhouse on the Wharf. The Players open on July 3 with A Moon for the Misbegotten, and continue through the season with The Climate of Eden (July 14-19), The Family Reunion, Separate Tables (July 28-Aug. 2), The Emperor Jones (Aug. 4-9), The Summer's Treason (Aug. 11-16), and The Millionairess...
...midnight, only seven men had been named. On the third day the Socialists contested the election of Kishi himself. In the end, Kishi won what had been in the bag from the beginning. Then he rushed his new ministers to the palace to be sworn in by the Emperor...
...Which Emperor? The beautiful road that De Gaulle was mapping out might yet prove to be one that Frenchmen are too divided or too self-indulgent to follow. Perhaps, in the end, the politicians would be justified in their belief that the crucial question was not whether De Gaulle would succeed but who would succeed...
...compare them to "those in Napoleon's time." French journalists, accustomed to subsisting off the daily indiscretions of the Cabinet ministers of the Fourth Republic, saw the whole thing in a different light. "Covering the government," moaned one, "is like trying to cover the court of the Emperor of Japan...
...Established by Alexander Baranof, a Siberian dry-goods salesman, manager of the Russian American Co., chartered in 1799 by Russia's Emperor Paul. Ordered to promote discovery, commerce and agriculture and to propagate Christianity, Baranof virtually ruled Alaska for 20-odd years. Through his trading company, which was to Alaska what Hudson's Bay Co. was to Canada, Baranof ably enhanced Russia's claim to the territory by organizing the country, setting up trade relations with England, the U.S. and Spain, and turning Sitka itself into a glittering, sophisticated Russian colony...