Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Youthful (37) King Mahendra, ardent chess player, hunter and poet,* is an absolute ruler who earnestly does not want to be one. All week he pored over new drafts for a possible constitution. He also called in the leaders of four major political parties, got them to agree to help him set up a coalition government to rule until the scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern...
...their grievances in private audiences with France's genial President René Coty, who well knew that if they quit, it would be his job to find another Premier. While Coty did his best to smooth their feathers, harried Félix Gaillard, France's youngest (38) ruler since Napoleon Bonaparte, stalked the corridors of the Elysée palace, nervously lighting one Gitane cigarette off another...
...flattered for four days straight. They seemed to have no quarrel with Mauritania's status as a semi-autonomous political entity inside French West Africa. And since they included two council ministers, a tribal sheik and the powerful Mohammed Ould Fall Oumer, Emir of Trarza and absolute ruler of 50,000 warriors, France had every reason to believe that it had won strong support for its plans to set up a central executive over the loosely linked, Frenchsponsored West African Federation. When the Mauritanians left for the Riviera, their hosts saw them off with high hope and amity...
This week the aftermath of the African border incident, when France bombed Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef in Tunisia (TIME, Feb. 17), has the French government teetering, see FOREIGN NEWS, Explosive Olive Branch. And for an unusual closeup of Soviet Russia's ruler, who would be embarrassed by a well-informed citizenry, see FOREIGN NEWS, Host with the Most...
...born in Stockholm of Russian-Swedish parents (his father was a baritone in the Don Cossack Chorus), did well in his Met debut as Faust, outdid himself as Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Anatol in Vanessa. Tall for a tenor-his pressagent, measuring with a basketball coach's rubber ruler, claims 6 ft. 3 in. -Gedda offers a clear, sweet voice that may lack warmth ("Champagne rather than Chianti," says one critic), but has strength and purity. His acting is intelligent, his pronunciation unusually correct for the opera stage; he is a linguist, speaks seven languages...