Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 58, fifth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, last week's dilution of ownership, no matter how tiny, could only signify changing times in a life that has seen many changes. When Krupp succeeded to his family's industrial throne in 1943, the word Krupp was synonymous with armaments. The Krupp plants produced the weapons that helped Hitler ravage Europe; by the end of World War II most of the Krupp factories lay in ruins, pounded into rubble by Allied bombers, and Alfried Krupp himself was sentenced to twelve years...
...minded. In discussing the February revolution, for example, after giving two pages of "the bare facts," Ulam asks, "What did really happen?" He then summarizes the liberal, non-Bolshevik Socialist, monarchist, Trotskyite, and Leninist positions before adding his own interpretation. Equally impressive are his analyses of Lenin as the ruler of a state. Here he gives a very reasonable explanation of Lenin's reasons for introducing the New Economic Policy. When he writes about the Comintern, Ulam not only manages to convey a great deal of information, but also elucidates the personal motivations of Comintern founders and members, and recreates...
...many a tinhorn ruler had done before him, Fidel apparently hopes to form a third world force of small, revolutionary countries, and Havana Radio hinted that it should be represented by a new tri-continental organization with headquarters in Havana. To Cubans, that sounded like circus time forever...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Tired philosophy and an undocumented personal interpretation of the relationship between Conquistador Pizarro and Inca Ruler Atahuallpa are injected into a historical spectacle that pleases visually but fails to satisfy dramatically...
Died. Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah, 70, progress-minded ruler of oil-rich Kuwait; of congestive heart failure; in Kuwait (see THE WORLD...