Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab leaders who have most to lose from the French-Algerian war met last week in Rabat, Morocco's Sultan Mohamed V, and Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, each ruler of a country one year old, had much to talk about, but their main occupation was: how to get peace and order established in Algeria, which lies between them. Both Morocco and Tunisia need money, goods and trained men to stabilize their fledgling countries and, though they had fought hard and bitterly for their independence from France, they knew that their best chance of help lay in friendship with...
...bitter winter of 1520, Gustav Eriksson Vasa, then 24 and a fugitive from a Jutland prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler of Sweden. The political slaughter had been designed to stifle Swedish resistance to the Union of Kalmar, which bound together Sweden, Denmark and Norway under one crown. But when the Dalecarlian peasants refused to believe young Vasa's tales of terror, he gave up hope of leading a revolt. Defeated...
...Louis because he had to work to support his family. But he read hungrily, listened to radio music in his spare time, and found that "just about everything that interested me stuck." Without really trying, he says, he can rattle off the names and dates of any ruler in any major country through history, give the dates, forces employed and strategy of 500 historic battles, or hum entire symphonies. Thanks to his rare gift, Nadler currently may add as much as $192,000 to winnings that have already provided a $15,000 house for his wife and three sons. Beyond...
...Coaxed on by the cunning hands of Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Bold Ruler of the Wheatley. Stables barely outnosed Calumet Farms' Gen. Duke to take the $131,400 Flamingo Stakes at Miami's Hialeah. Across the continent at California's Santa Anita Park, Jockey Johnny Longden, 47, who has won more races than any other rider past or present, booted home his 5,000th winner, genially shrugged off questions about retirement...
Aboard President Eisenhower's personal Constellation Columbine, Saudi Arabia's brown-robed King Saud began his journey back to the Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud...