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Fire Striker. But Nasser's triumphs are not solely the result of subversion and pop singers. His very example is an inspiration. He has been the uncontested ruler of Egypt for almost a decade, ever since February 1954, when he put down a revolt of cavalry officers and consolidated his regime. During that time, the old political remnants such as the Wafdists have disappeared and even been forgotten. It is Nasser whose personality stands above all others in Egypt and the Arab world, and no other name strikes fire like...
Take Your Choice. To Russia's ruler, it had become all too clear that the recent flood of artistic expression-poetry readings before mass audiences, exhibits of modern paintings, jazz imported from abroad, books and articles about the Stalin terror-were becoming dangerous carriers of alien Western ideas, shaking the foundations of Communist society. Destalinization, touched off by Nikita Khrushchev himself at the 20th Party Congress in 1956, had gone...
Each horse is impeccably sired: Never Bend by the Irish stallion Nasrullah (other offspring: Nashua, Bold Ruler, Jaipur), Candy Spots by the Argentine stakes winner Nigromante. As a matter of fact, the two horses seem so closely matched that even the oddsmakers are having trouble. Last week in Tijuana, Mexico bookies quoted Never Bend at 2 to 1 to win the Kentucky Derby, Candy Spots...
Reassuring Smiles. When such facts were raised last week, the Laotian visitors only smiled reassuringly. Bidding for continued U.S. financial aid, Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, accompanying his ruler, said: "The best remedy is time and patience. Certainly Laos is lost if the Western signatories wash their hands of us and drop us coldly . . . We don't believe our friends will drop us ... One must not despair of the situation so quickly . . . You must understand that in our country the politicians have insufficient maturity of spirit and often have personal ambitions. You must see things as a whole...
...Hammer. Crushing rebellions the papacy stirred up, Frederick earned another nickname-il Martello del Hondo (hammer of the world); but at last the machinery of his rule, having been sabotaged and repaired too many times, no longer functioned. When he died (in bed -a triumph for a ruler of those times), Italy and the Empire were in chaos. And, lacking another emperor of Frederick's energy, in chaos they remained...