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Last year, the Corporation did it again, getting for its Commencement speaker (always one of the honorary degree winners) His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahanshah of Iran. President Pusey cited the Shah as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
...first Czechoslovak party boss, Klement Gottwald, was a harsh ruler. He nationalized the country's entire industry, including even small artisans' shops, collectivized all farms, and subjected the people to a withering succession of arrests, show trials and executions of "Titoists" and "traitors." Fittingly, Gottwald caught a chill at Stalin's funeral in 1953 and died a few months later. An almost equally unbending Stalinist took his place: Antonin Novotny, who had been Communist boss of Prague. As the slight winds of liberalism blew throughout the East bloc following Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Novotny tried his best...
...chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu, in return for an annual honorarium of 5,000 Straits dollars (now worth $1,700). In 1963, when colonialism's day was done, the British bequeathed Sabah to the new Federation of Malaysia...
Plato's follower, Aristotle, disagreed with the abolition of family life, but applied much of the Presidential Academy teachings to the son of Philip II of Macedonia at the ruler's request. Who emerged from the system and conquered a major portion of the world? Alexander the Great...
...underpants matched." Obviously, acceptable hem length depends on the length-and shape-of a woman's legs. Determining how high miniskirts should be allowed to go, says Philip Earl, consultant for Los Angeles' Merchants & Manufacturers As sociation, "is like measuring a jellyfish with a rubber ruler...