Word: regente
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Died. John Francis Neylan, 74, colorful San Francisco attorney, a onetime chief counsel of the Hearst empire and a regent of the University of California from 1928 to 1955, who in 1949 began a clamorous, ultimately unsuccessful battle to impose an anti-Communist loyalty oath on the university faculty; of a pulmonary condition; in San Francisco...
Bishop Luigi Traglia, 64, born in Albano, near Rome, has worked in the church's administrative headquarters, the Curia, for the past 30 years. As vice regent of the diocese of Rome, he was in charge of the recent synod of the Roman clergy (TIME, Feb. 8), has made an impressive record as a builder of churches and organizer of new parishes...
...Drama from Gendarme Circles" (translated by Edmund Ordon and adapted by Mary Manning) is a satire on totalitarianism and an attack on imposed conformity. It begins when the last political prisoner in an unnamed nation signs his confession and reconciles himself to "the Infant and his uncle the Regent," which means that everybody in "the best state in the world" has attained a state of "perfect loyalty," with "not a hint of incipient disloyalty," as various characters tell one another with maddening frequency. By the time someone began screaming that "the people have become wildly, cruelly, bestially loyal," I felt...
...scene: a tall, natty young Oxford student just back from England. He was Constantinus Bereng Seeiso, Mantsebo's stepson and legitimate claimant to the paramount chieftaincy. Bereng was only two years old when his father, Paramount Chief, died in 1940, and Mantsebo, the senior wife, took over as regent. Now he had come of age, and was demanding his throne immediately so that he could be in power in time for this week's elections, Basutoland's first step toward limited self-government...
Racing to the arcade, the four men scaled a 6-ft. gate and entered the second jewelry store. There they scooped up another $140,000 worth and found the keys to yet another Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' store. Next stop: Regent Street, branch No. 3, and the biggest haul of all-jewelry worth $420,000 and keys to the associate jewelry firm of Arthur H. Drew Ltd. in Victoria Street...