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...before the wedding, the Congo's unpredictable Colonel Mobutu abruptly announced: "If no government can take care of it, then the army, as an a political body, will," and despatched the army delegation, which arrived only half an hour before the wedding of their former ruler...
When an Asian member of the audience said he thought Lumumba was not "pro-Communist," and the rightful ruler of the Congo, Harriman became adamant. "You have no right to state such opinions as fact." he answered...
...Australia, where quadrigamy may tempt some men but is illegal for all, the portly and jovial Sultan of Pahang, ruler of Malaya's largest state, arrived with one of his four wives, pretty Che' Haabah Bind Ahmad, 25, gave fascinated Down Under newsmen an illustration of marital democracy in action. He explained that each of his wives has her own eight-room, air-conditioned palace, and each takes turns in appearing with him at official ceremonies and traveling with him. Che' reported that she and the other three "get on very well," happily observed that "when...
...years, L.B.J. has been effectively sole ruler of the Senate, in which capacity he has been responsible for the enactment--and the emasculation--of more liberal legislation than in any era since the Hundred Days. For both the enactment and the emasculation he has incurred the love and wrath of almost everybody around. He has, as both his defenders and his detractors remind us, "bridged the gap" between North and South, liberal and conservative, Douglas, in a word, and East-land. And by doing so he has kept the machinery running...
Golden Days. Early in the 9th century, when Fez was still a young hamlet, its ruler cried: "O God, make this city a center of law and science where your book [the Koran] will be studied." To fulfill this dream, a wealthy widow of Fez commissioned Karaouine mosque, which took 278 years to complete. The mosque was already famed as a university when the first European university was established in Bologna about noo. Begun as a theological seminary, Karaouine soon taught 8,000 students everything from medicine to geography...