Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain has at long last chosen sides in the Middle East, while the U.S. continues to favor an impartial stand, however precarious. The side Britain has chosen is not pro-Israel, but anti-Nasser. Egypt's 38-year-old military ruler, once hopefully regarded by the British-even though he drove them from the Suez-is now in British eyes the Middle East's Villain...
...agreed that Spain's 100,000-man army, whose native troops will eventually become part of the Sultan's own army, would remain in Morocco in Spanish hands for the time being. It was a triumphant and happy day for Mohammed V, who can now count himself ruler of a united land of 9,000,000 people...
...almost forgotten Prince of Monaco, Pierre de Polignac, was greeted at Los Angeles' International Airport by his renowned son and ruler of the vest-pocket principality, Prince Rainier III. Prince Pierre had come to see Rainier's fiancee. Cinemactress Grace Kelly, and to help plan the April wedding strategy. Meanwhile, on a nearby movie set, Grace rested between scenes of her new film High Society, looking startlingly thin in an unflattering classic-cut bathing suit. Was this a new New Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled...
While rioters paused to debate the new issue, Nehru watched an official parade celebrating the sixth anniversary of the Indian republic. Down Ruler's Way came lumbering elephants with blue foreheads and flowers painted on their hindquarters, bearded Sikhs in bright turbans, Madras Regiment soldiers behind their famed fifes and drums, felt-hatted Gurkhas. At Nehru's side was his good friend Lady Mountbatten, wife of the last British Viceroy. Afterwards Nehru told a group of young army trainees: "Redistribution of states is only, after all, for administrative convenience. There is no finality . . . a decision can be changed...
According to a contemporary account, "Then arose Asa the scribe, and went unto Belcher, the ruler, and said behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee, Butter that stinketh not..." However phrased in fact, this request was turned down. A strike followed and the undergraduate body deserted Hollis Hall, the commons, almost entirely...