Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil War dead that workmen have been hewing out of solid rock since 1941 (TIME color, Jan. 26). By no coincidence, it was also the anniversary of the day in 1939 when the last pockets of Republican resistance collapsed in Madrid. Now, 20 years after he proclaimed himself ruler of Spain, "responsible only to God and history," Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 66, was ready to offer a partial accounting for his stewardship...
...would take far more than the surrender of a few score rebels to end the revolt. "History," noted Britain's Manchester Guardian Weekly last week, "offers no precedent of a colonial people turning away from its nationalist movement after four years of bitter war against the colonial ruler" and a loss of 80,000 lives...
...Brahmaputra River south of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. So far, they appear to be fighting more for themselves than in the name of the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, who with Red consent has managed to stay on his lacquered throne as Tibet's titular ruler...
...Harvard Divinity School graduate with a lingering devotion to the Boston Red Sox last week became the spiritual ruler of 1,300,000 Greek Orthodox believers in North and South America. Elected Archbishop of the Americas: black-bearded, handsome Metropolitan James of Malta, 48, a U.S. citizen who was born Jacob A. Koukouzes on the Turkish island of Imros. His impressive qualifications for the position, second biggest in his church: 16 years as a Greek Orthodox theologian and chief vicar of congregations in New York and New England, four years as Greek Orthodoxy's highly effective liaison agent...
...continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert, and filled it with water borne in skins...