Word: rulers
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...named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself President in 1930. "God & Trujillo." No absolute ruler-not even France's Sun King-was more foppishly vain. Applying his own version of droit du seigneur, Trujillo took three wives, countless mistresses. Scattered about his peanut-sized fief were twelve palaces and ranches at which a full staff of servants faithfully prepared every meal every day just...
When Victor Emmanuel II ousted Pope Pius IX as temporal ruler of Rome, most Italian scientists formed themselves into the independent group that thrives today as the National Academy of Lynxes. In 1937, Pope Pius XI changed the name of the church's society to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and gave it his subtly qualified support. "Science which always wants to serve truth," he announced, "is the source of all good. Truth can deliver us from all evils...
...arms it can use (supplied largely by Britain). One likely intended recipient is the Congo's Antoine Gizenga, the Red-lining rebel in Stanleyville, who as Lumumba's Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance of armaments" in the Congo if the Belgians continued to aid Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Nkrumah and his vigorous aides in Accra's African Affairs Bureau may also have plans to pump guns into explosive Angola, perhaps into white-led states...
...witty and amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford. Among the chief sitters: Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Saint Simon, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Louis XIV, Louis XV, John Wesley and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intellectual and psychological vignettes illuminate the contradictions of ruler and sage. As a bride of 16, Catherine the Great was ignorant of the facts of life, thought the only difference between men and women was that men, for some odd reason, had to shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play...
...their native habitats, and he always asked himself: "Would I go in the jungle with that man?'' By that standard, each was eligible for Monty's safari except Khrushchev. Mao, whom he met in Peking in May 1960, he regarded as 'the peace-loving ruler of an emancipated people-sort of trustworthy, friendly, courteous, cheerful, clean and reverent. Can Mao be persuaded that "the best interests of China lie in being friendly to the West?" Says Monty: "I shall do my best to bring this about...