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...received after his father's retirement in 1965 and death a year later. In 1969 Virginia Democrats rejected the Byrd machine's conservative gubernatorial candidate in favor of a moderate who ultimately lost to Republican Linwood Holton. Last week "Young Harry," 55, himself abdicated the Byrd throne that he had so tenuously held. He announced that he was leaving the Democratic Party and running for re-election to the Senate as "an independent Democrat...
Whatever his act, it began inauspiciously. The French pulled Sihanouk out of school and placed him on the throne when he was 18 because they figured that he was more likely than any other member of Cambodia's royal family to cooperate with France's sagging colonial administration. At first it appeared that the French had chosen wisely: young Sihanouk pursued nothing more radical than a long list of hobbies (songwriting, saxophone playing, poetry, athletics, and an even longer list of girl friends). Then, after sensing a tide of resentment against de facto French control in Cambodia...
...troops during the conquests in North Africa, the Middle East and Indo-China, but later joined De Gaulle in dissolving the empire. He personally issued the proclamation freeing Syria in September 1941 and Lebanon two months later, in 1955 negotiated the return of the Sultan of Morocco to his throne and later vigorously supported Algerian independence. For all of this he earned De Gaulle's praise as a soldier "possessing the sense of the greatness of France...
Time, when he spoke his significant fourth act words, was seated on a throne enclosed in a cube of glass which had previously been behind the rear wall. Before Time spoke, the middle lower portion of the wall moved and this cube advanced the considerable distance out to the lip of the stage. Time, black, and, true to the sound of both his voice and name (Alton Kumalo), exotic, spoke without moving his body...
...that anything could have happened to damage them. Their names, engraved in faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House at 21 South Street. Pegasus, the winged horse, has been carved into a wooden throne chair, featured above The Advocate's motto: Dulce est Periculum. There is also another: Veritas nihil veretur, which means (I read a translation of it the introduction to this anthology) "Truth fears nothing...