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...believe, Mother, That the splendor of life Is born in my prison; And I believe that My final visitor Will not be an eyeless...
...Enjoy, the beauty of New England on a fall foliage tour," exhort the travel brochures, conjuring up visions of rustic splendor only hours away from the seasonless megalopolis. All too often, city folk who drive to the rural areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine in search of autumn find each other instead. The once solitary experience of watching the leaves turn color has become a mass spectator sport in the Northeast...
Died. Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, 55, wealthy former Maharajah of Mysore and one of the last of India's great princes; of bronchial pneumonia; in Bangalore, India. Wadiyar ascended Mysore's throne in 1940. Though he ruled with a fabled fondness for splendor, pomp and courtly ritual, Wadiyar also did much to modernize his 125,000-sq.mi. realm. In 1947, when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from...
Glittering Splendor. Last Thursday morning, the aging Emperor was abruptly summoned to the library of Jubilee (recently renamed National) Palace in Addis Ababa. There he confronted representatives of the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, the collective leadership of the young officers. He stood erect, his eyes glistening, as a proclamation was read denouncing him for having abused the power and dignity of his office and having subverted it for his own gain. The proclamation ended by declaring that Haile Selassie was "deposed from office...
...asked incredulously. "Yes, in there," replied an officer courteously, as he pulled forward the front seat to enable his passenger to squeeze into the rear. As the auto pulled away, Haile Selassie turned for one last look at his imperial palace where he had lived so long in glittering splendor and outside of which lions had once roamed. His view was blocked by hundreds of students who jeered at him and screamed, "Hang the Emperor...