Word: imperiale
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- Old Persian proverb Ever since the oil crisis that rocked the world last year, the autocratic ruler of Iran has, to many people, indeed seemed to be basking in the light of the Almighty. Iran sits atop an estimated 60 billion bbl. of crude oil, or roughly one-tenth of...
Shortly after Ford moved into the White House he went back to his Alexandria home to pick up his shoe trees. A graduate of the Nixon School of Imperial Protocol was aghast because American Presidents are not supposed to indulge in such menial tasks. Fortunately Ford has not as yet...
Vienna-born Author Marek takes the biographical tack in The Eagles Die, concentrating upon Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, obviously hoping that it might do for Habsburg Austria what Nicholas and Alexandra did for Romanov Russia. He only partly succeeds, mainly because his principal characters were intensely private, imperial strangers...
There is this quaint notion that in a democracy the people are sovereign. When it comes to the need for dirty tricks, the people behave very much like other bosses. They say to their hirelings, "Go ahead, but don't tell me about it." In the case of the...
Died. Colonel Hans Handler, 63, commander since 1965 of Vienna's 400-year-old Spanish Riding School, home of the white Lipizzaner stallions; of a stroke while putting his horse Siglavy Beja through its paces in the riding hall of Vienna's Imperial Castle.