Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autocratic king who is pushing his people toward democracy is the West's best hope in troubled North Africa. Dressed in immaculate white djellabah edged with brocaded silk, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed V received TIME'S Frank White and Stanley Karnow in the throne room of his palace at Rabat, chatted with them under the ceremonial eyes of green-cloaked, turbaned guards armed with medieval halberds. He smilingly pointed out that independent Morocco, before the French took it over, was one of the first countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the young United States, added that...
Slow-Won Wisdom. This combination of Islam and West, of Moroccan nationalist with French boules companions, is characteristic of this thin-voiced, soft-eyed man who sits hunched on the edge of his throne almost as if overwhelmed by its high-arching brocaded back. In the turbulent world of emergent Moslem nationalism, Mohammed. 47, is an all but unique example of instinctive moderation surrounded by intemperate ambition. His is a skillful balancing act between tradition, which can become stagnation, and progress, which can become confusion...
This typical French family is scarcely prepared for the brouhaha and hurluberlu that follow Pippin's elevation to the throne. There is the grand opening of the "Versailles-Hilton" hotel; the Folies-Bergere holds a contest for the official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas...
...came, in October 1952, when dim-eyed old Dan Tobin could no longer forestall Beck's rise to the throne. Tobin himself placed Beck in nomination for the Teamsters' presidency with a soaring declaration: "There is not the slightest stain on his character. His conscience, I am sure, shines brilliantly in the eyes...
...themselves, the French want no kings ruling over them. The last Emperor of France was tossed off the throne 86 years ago. Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set. The businesslike, democratic sovereigns of northern Europe frequently turn up in town without causing a ripple. But Parisians in all walks of life have been in a dither for weeks over next week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Day laborers and priestesses of haute couture, florists and jewelers, architects and restaurateurs, waiters and street sweepers...