Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thundering cries of nationalism that rocked North Africa have failed to disrupt the lands to the south and west. Even Mauritania's powerful Emir of Trar-za, absolute ruler of 50,000 warriors, who stunned Paris by swearing allegiance to the King of Morocco last April, has declared: "No one can say that France has exploited Mauritania. On the contrary, it has been for her a burden." Most of French West Africa's present leaders want France to carry the burden for a long time to come-and France willingly does so in the firm belief that, with...
...eponym in truth: a fine English lad named Richard Amerycke. In the Bristol view of history, Amerycke, a customs collector, saw to it that Italian Explorer John Cabot, who discovered Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claimed it for the British crown, received a pension from King Henry VII. A grateful Cabot then named the conquest for his benefactor. Said the Lord Mayor, straight-faced: ''Everyone in Bristol has always known...
...keeping with an old family custom, a cousin of Jordan's young King Hussein gratefully took the helping hand of the British government last week. On dole in Scunthorpe, England, after being laid off from his $34-a-week job in a steel mill, was Hussein Mohammed Sagaff, 29, who nevertheless decided not to go home again: "My family would give me money if I returned to the Middle East, but I prefer the Western way of life-to be able to take my wife to a dance if I like...
...Hell began at five in the morning." So Jesuit Thomas Phillips describes his life in a Chinese Communist jail. In a new book, I Met a Traveler (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.50), Fellow Jesuit Kurt Becker describes how Father Phillips, former rector of Shanghai's Church of Christ the King, spent three years (1953-56) in Shanghai cells, for the most part squatting in one position all day, forbidden to speak a word. By refusing to defend himself against any charge ("I know that I am here only because I am a Catholic priest, sir"), he finally thwarted his jailors...
Coming after Goren's pass, Mrs. Sobel's five-club bid was bold, though it might possibly have been made (finesse South's king of clubs, discard West's losing dia mond on the jack of hearts). The payoff decision was Goren's final pass. At most other tables, West doubled the five-spade bid - naturally enough, since West held 15 of the deck's 40 high-card points (according to the Goren system of counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren...