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...making your head of state double in the role of chief administrative officer of the state, you impose burdens upon the incumbent which inevitably must shorten his life ... You could afford a King or an Emperor, and so keep your symbolic head of state out of politics, and free your administrative chief from the burdens of ceremonies and affixing signatures to many documents...
...there are the Duke of Windsor and the Duke of Gloucester, and the latter has two young sons to start a line of succession. If the spirit of '76 is still too strong for a return to the fold, General MacArthur might consider accepting the robes of Emperor of the U.S.A., with his young son as Crown Prince...
Though mambo has a number of self-styled kings & queens (one of whom, Mexico's flame-haired Maria Antonieta Pons, was already pulling them into a midtown New York nightclub last week), Pérez Prado is its emperor. Discussing his creation, Pérez Prado explains: "I am a collector of cries and noises, elemental ones like seagulls on the shore, winds through the trees, men at work in a foundry. Mambo is a movement back to nature, by means of rhythms based on such cries and noises, and on simple joys...
...Tokyo car dealer had good news for Hirohito, who has been making do with a 15-year-old Packard. The Emperor could come right down and pick up his "glorious grey" Cadillac, ordered three years ago. After a trial spin, the delighted owner ordered his imperial crest (a 16-petaled chrysanthemum...
...arrived, a village woman had given birth to twins, and according to a tribal superstition which holds that twins are evil, they had been buried alive. Alberts' recording is hair-raising in its intensity. In Ouagadougou, between the Gold Coast and Timbuktu, as guest of the Sorbonne-educated emperor, he recorded the palace orchestra, which included such instruments as the one-stringed rebec-a crude violin-and huge calabash drums...