Word: seigneurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French soldiers who opposed him during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined Premier Ahmed ben Bella's Politburo and the army's general staff, but quickly grew restive under Ben Bella's heavy-handed Marxist dictatorship. Last June that uneasiness boiled over into open rebellion, and Chaabani took to the hills with a hard core of his veteran troops...
...quid For the terrible thing that he did, But one M.P.'s quibble Was "What's good for Dame Sybil Must be good for each Sark invalid." Dame Sybil disdained his appeals, Only she could have motorized wheels. Her parliament said Sure To her droit du seigneur, No matter how other folk feels. ∙∙∙ With classic British nonchalance. Actor James Mason, 53. and his estranged wife Pamela, 44, launched a laconic legal battle in a Santa Monica court to divvy up the spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance of $14,165 a month alimony...
Silver-Haired Seigneur. The nine who shunned this year's trip include four first-place winners in last week's meet, four seconds, one third. Seven of them are married; none are well-off. Without them. Villanova's James F. ("Jumbo Jim") Elliott, who must make do coaching a squad studded with leftovers, should still have a winning team. Along with Budd and 220-yd. Winner Paul Drayton, two sprinters he developed himself, Jumbo has enough speedsters to sweep every flat race from
...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 in case the master dropped in. At each mansion, Trujillo kept a full wardrobe of uniforms complete with white-plumed...
...Antoine, according to contemporary accounts, "excelled in miniatures and portraits in small." The peasant paintings of Louis, the most talented of the three, were a happy blend of Dutch naturalism and Roman classicism. Mathieu, the most successful, became master painter to the city of Paris, assumed the title of Seigneur de la Jumelle. But this sort of pomposity does not invade his Card Players. The game is tense, the players wary; an everyday scene becomes a study in suspense...