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...Libyan teachers to staff them. The shortage was eased by importing Egyptians, many of whom were aflame with Nasserite notions of Arab unity and socialism. During the brief periods when the curfew was lifted last week, young men in Tripoli swarmed out to cheer the revolution, and schoolgirls built triumphal arches of branches and flowers on scores of streets. Libyan embassies in Damascus, Rome and Athens were seized by young Libyan students and officers studying abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: TEXTBOOK COUP IN A DESERT KINGDOM | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...Splendor," which would surpass the Champs Elysées in elegance. At the end of the street would be the new railroad station, more magnificent than Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. There would be the Führer Palace, with a reception hall 500 yards long, and a triumphal arch twice as wide as Napoleon's. Over everything would loom the Kuppelhalle, a domed meeting hall vast enough to enclose St. Peter's Cathedral. "I would never have entered politics," the Führer would sigh, "if I could have been an architect or a master builder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Fuhrer's Master Builder | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...address. Because of security requirements, the ceremony had to be held in the vast Ohio Stadium, come rain or shine; the weather produced both. Just as the rain stopped, the Vice President's Marine helicopter clattered down to a cordoned-off zone near the stadium, briefly overcoming the triumphal music of the university concert band. The graduates were in their places, all 4,228 of them, seated in neat rows on the field where their unbeaten football team fought its way to the mythical national championship last fall. State police and Secret Service men surveyed half-filled rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencement, 1969: Pomp and Protest | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...major cause of tension. De Gaulle's own position lost some of its majesty, both within and outside France, after the student riots a year ago and the autumn monetary crisis that almost forced devaluation of the franc. De Gaulle had courted the Soviet Union during a triumphal tour in 1966 and had implicitly excluded the U.S. from his often-stated vision of a Europe "united from the Atlantic to the Urals." But his policy of détente with the U.S.S.R. suffered a violent setback when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia, and French critics of NATO suddenly fell silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE FUTURE OF FRANCO-U.S. RELATIONS | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...England, he found close friends in Sir Thomas More, John Colet and other noted English humanists. In Italy, he learned Greek, published an extensive anthology of ancient Adages, and was appalled at the wars of Pope Julius II against neighboring Christian states. In Bologna, he witnessed Julius' triumphal entry with "a mighty groan," wondering whether the Pope was the successor of Jesus Christ or Julius Caesar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theologians: The Unheard Mediator | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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