Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...everything was far from fine-at least to the members of Local 10, the Chicago Federation of Musicians, which has played syncopated sycophant to Petrillo since 1923. The local had gone all that time under Petrillo's presidency without a meaningful challenge to his reign. Now it dared to rebel. "Jimmy, why don't you cut out?" demanded a folk singer at a Local 10 meeting last month. Jimmy, who voluntarily quit in 1958 as czar of the American Federation of Musicians, amid an arpeggio of tears, could not see leaving his $26,000 job as the head...
...Aussies may prove too much for the Mexicans when they meet in Brisbane later this month. But as the first Latin American team ever to reach the challenge round, Osuna and Palafox will at least reign as the sentimental favorites across the western hemisphere. They may even take a set or two from the usually invincible Aussies, who last year slaughtered Italy in straight matches...
During her 50-year reign, she was a symbol of continuity in a changing world...
...first time in his four-year reign that Pope John XXIII was seriously ill. The Vatican, canceling all papal audiences a few days after the Pontiff's 81st birthday, at first reported that the Pope had a case of influenza. But the real trouble, it said later, was a gastric illness that had provoked a "rather intense anemia." There was speculation, although no confirmation, that he had an ulcer. Put to bed and on a strict diet, he seemed cheerier after a few days...