Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young monarch in a shaky new country can do worse than choose Charles de Gaulle as a model to rule by. Morocco's Hassan II is just such a king. Like le grand Charles, Hassan considers himself his country's indispensable man, and he may be right. Like De Gaulle he chose the device of a popular referendum when he decided to adopt a constitution (TIME, Dec. 28); his smashing victory won Hassan the rare esteem of his idol in Paris. Employing some Gaullist firmness, Hassan has now fired the three members of his Cabinet who represented...
...yellowed pages in Tidende's library, where bound copies of the paper date back to 1749. That was the year that Ernst Henrich Berling, a Copenhagen printer, secured a license to send news through the royal mail. The license has long since expired, along with Frederik V, the monarch who granted it. Frederik IX now sits on the throne. Ernst Berling, too, died long ago. But six successive generations of Berlings have preserved Tidende's title as the oldest newspaper in the world...
...every soldier knows, greatcoats are never-no, not ever-worn on the parade ground at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point near London. Mindful of his own days there, Jordan's mitey monarch, King Hussein, carried the custom 14 miles northward when he turned up in ordinary service uniform to review the annual Passing Out parade at the R.A.F.'s Cranwell College in blustery Lincolnshire. No one dared to cross Jordan's stormy ranks, and for a frigid 45 minutes the R.A.F.'s top brass shivered along while hardy Hussein marched around. Chattered Station Commander Group...
Although Hussein yearns to reign as a constitutional monarch ("something between the Queen of England and De Gaulle," a friend says), bitter experience suggests to him that one-man rule is safest, and Jordan is not a democratic land. Even so, Hussein last month held "fair and impartial" elections for Parliament, three years before he was required to do so. Though parties had been prohibited since an attempted coup in 1957 (Hussein lifted the ban only three weeks ago), the elections were a far cry from the rigged balloting held last year, when no fewer than 40 candidates...
...cancer; in Hollywood. An English hotelkeeper's son, the rotund Laughton studied for the London stage, but his star rose on the screen with one tour de force after another-as a warmhearted gargoyle (Hunchback of Notre Dame), a thundering misanthrope (Mutiny on the Bounty), a ribald monarch (Henry VIII), an oratorical Southern senator (Advise and Consent). He was honored with Oscars, but cared little for the trappings of a star; as he himself said: "The truth is, I'm an incurable...