Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sword." Recently, half blind, racked by arthritis and heart disease, the old King handed over many of his duties to Crown Prince Saud and retreated into one of his fabulous palaces at Taif, near Mecca. There, last week, at 72, a fragile shadow of the giant who once rode at the head of the Wahabi, Ibn Saud the King of the Desert died. As he had decreed, the new King is Saud al Saud...
...born in the slums of Boston's South End, and raised in a school of art that came to be known as "proletarian." A tightlipped, hatchet-faced youth, Levine painted lividly angry pictures of bloated capitalists and brutal cops. As an honor student of the proletarian school, he rode especially high in his 20s. Drafted in World War II, Levine found on his return that his kind of painting had fallen out of fashion: the postwar generation of painters was going almost wholly abstract...
...Greek Embassy, they entertained the Eisenhowers at a dinner for 50, next morning continued resolutely to Philadelphia and New York. This week, in the space of 48 hours, they attended Greek Orthodox services at Manhattan's Hellenic Cathedral, lunched with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, rode up Broadway in a ticker-tape storm, lunched at the Waldorf with Mayor Impellitteri and 1,500 other New Yorkers, accepted an honorary degree (King Paul can add Doctor of Humane Letters to his many titles) from Columbia University, dined with U.N. officials twice and attended two receptions. Ahead of them...
Falange's emergence from several years in the shadows. Spain's Dictator Franco rules by a shrewd playing off of three groups: army, church and party. When the Nazis and Fascists rode high, Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his Falange ride high. When Hitler and Mussolini were beaten, Franco discouraged the Falange's Fascist salute and uniformed parades, hoping thereby to gain a little credit with the victors of World War II. After a long, wily fight, his strategy paid off. He signed a concordat with the Vatican, a great gain for the church. (Last week Spain...
Then, through a double line of banners, the Dictator walked away from the cheers and rode back into the strange solitude from which he rules Spain...