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...insensitivity, profligate spending and authoritarian ways, says Jan Sithole, secretary-general of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (S.F.T.U). While S.F.T.U members marched last month to protest a proposed new constitution that would entrench the powers of the monarchy, Mswati was busy tooling around in his new $500,000 Maybach 62, complete with dvd player, surround-sound speakers, refrigerator and bar. Although the King appears impervious to pressure from his people, he has bowed to their demands in the past. In 2002, Mswati decided to buy himself a $45 million jet, but after aid groups protested and Swazis revolted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...definition, must be new. Innovation most often occurs when ideas or things are brought together in a way that never happened before, and when such juxtaposition occurs, the result is greater than the sum of the parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...showed themselves as little united as their conquerors. Scarcely twelve hours after their arrival, the delegates from the Russian zone rose, stomped out of the blustery night session in the best Gromyko tradition. Cracked slick, scrappy Rudolph Paul, Russian-appointed President of Thuringia, as he climbed into his shiny Maybach for the trip home, "This is a fine democracy you have here when a man can't even make a speech. It's enough to make you sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Enough to Make You Sick | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...wanted to try the delicacies of different countries." So perhaps it was pace which slimmed Princess Juliana, whose latest pictures show her to be by no means her former dumpling self (see cut). She and Benno have zipped and roared around Europe in a $15,200 silver-finished Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: 23-Lb. Surprise | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder, 23 h. p. Opel offered by General Motors German subsidiary at 1,450 marks. By special permission of newlywed Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana her new 12-cylinder Maybach-Zeppelin convertible costing 38,000 marks ($15,200) was exhibited as "Most Costly Car In The Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Just Folks | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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