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Hurled Heads. The leaping apparition was Shamyl the Avar. He was one of two fighting men to escape the ruins of the aoul. Two years later, in 1834, he was elected Imam of Dhagestan-the absolute spiritual and temporal ruler of most of the tribesmen in the Caucasus. He fired his subjects with a fanatic brand of Mohammedanism, and his dedicated Murids, or holy warriors, kept the armies of Czar Nicholas at bay for the next 25 years. As the years passed and the Czar's frustration continued, Shamyl became a European hero. Russophobic Britons forgave the raider...
Poland. Wladyslaw Gomulka, 54, is the only satellite leader ever to face down Khrushchev and the ruler of the only Warsaw Pact nation to accept U.S. aid. A "homegrown Communist," who is alive today only because he was in a Polish jail in 1937 when Stalin liquidated the rest of Poland's Communist leadership, Gomulka is an irascible, puritanical man who hates conviviality and chitchat; he has strictly forbidden his aides to publicize his private life-which is largely given over to swimming, volley ball and his Russian-Jewish wife Zofja. Like Hungary's Kadar, Gomulka was arrested...
...trim, broad-shouldered man, the Shah walks with the easy grace of the trained athlete and soldier, shows aware ness of his power with every toss of his silvery royal head. Though he is only the second ruler in the Pahlevi dynasty-which dates from 1926-his profile might have been lifted straight from one of the bas-reliefs in the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis that Alexander conquered. If the Shah has little sense of humor and a prevalent cast of melancholy, it is perhaps because his life has been a sobering affair...
Died. Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 62, Paramount Ruler of Malaya since his election to a five-year term last April under the Federation's unusual rotating kingship system, a onetime farmer, who became Sultan of the state of Selangor in 1938; following hospitalization for a viral infection; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
First we see Richard II, a ruler who is unjust and arbitrary, but with unquestioned title to the throne. Then Henry IV: a fair and wise king, whose attempts to rule are thwarted by the manner in which he reached the throne. And finally, one who combines all the elements necessary for successful rule, Henry...