Word: sultanate
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...chief of the Emergency Cabinet, Colonel Husein answered: "We'll listen politely, but continue on our chosen path." Both Husein and Simbolon said that they felt Sukarno was on the decline, indicated quite openly that they would prefer to see him replaced with someone else, possibly the Sultan of Djokjakarta. They also want to see Mohammed Hatta, a Sumatran currently on the outs with Sukarno, made Vice President or Premier. The alternative was a fragmenting of the country, with oil-rich Sumatra seeking some kind of autonomy. Said Colonel Simbolon confidently: "The national army is now so badly rent...
Islamic law permits a man to marry as often as he chooses-provided he never has more than four wives at a time. For a man as enthusiastic as the Sultan of Pahang, however, it may sometimes be hard to keep count. An eternal youth at 52, Sir Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-mu'adzam Shah ibni Al-marhum Al-mutasim Bi'llah Sultan Abdullah, soon to celebrate his 25th year as ruler of the largest state in Malaya, is a man as huge (6 ft. i in., 200-plus Ibs.) as his name...
...quiet times between parties, the Sultan has found time to keep his household stocked with the requisite number of permissible wives; they have borne him 20-odd children. Wife No. 1, the "official consort," is the daughter of a neighboring sultan, but Wife No. 4 found her way to the Sultan's side via the dance halls of Kuala Lumpur. As the mother of the Sultan's latest-born son, she has been generally considered the royal favorite...
...Manhattan last week Father Martin ended a three-month search through the U.S. and Canada for funds and scholars for another international seminar, endorsed by the sultan, this summer. Subject of the second priory conference: education. Ten students from the U.S. will attend the seminar under partial State Department sponsorship, and professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Fordham have agreed to come. Sixteen Canadian students have enrolled, and most of the countries represented last year will send delegations...
...Chicago's Fifth Annual Merchandise Mart Floor-Covering Show hired a daring rigger to dress as a sultan, hover over the city on a linoleum "flying carpet" suspended from a helicopter. When fog and rain cut visibility, the sultan had to be dangled instead on a boom from the Mart's 353 ft. roof...