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...ambitious young cadet in time became the debonair Right Honorable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O. He was a destroyer flotilla skipper in the Mediterranean, later Britain's wartime South East Asia commander, and then Viceroy of India during India's difficult transition to independence. At last, after achieving, like his father before him, the rank of First Sea Lord, he became Britain's first Chief of the Defense Staff...
...tried to persuade the prince to go abroad for medical treatment. Finally last week, the palace cryptically announced that Mohammed would leave at the end of the month for a trip to the U.S., Canada and Britain (lest this seem an affront, the King named his younger brother viceroy during his own two-day absence from the country this week). Prince Mohammed still remains the immediate heir to a stouthearted young King whose perpetually threatened life is all that keeps alive the dynasty of the Hashemites...
...form of the ceremony was nearly as old as Parliament itself, but the man so honored was new. Resplendent in his red-and-silver-trimmed black uniform, tall, courtly Governor General George Philias Vanier, 71, first French Canadian to serve as the Queen's Viceroy in Canada (TIME, Sept. 21), had arrived to open Parliament. In the crowded Senate chamber, he read his first Speech from the Throne. By his side, regal in red velvet and diamonds, was his handsome wife Pauline...
...visit, Dwight Eisenhower will go to Agra to see the moonlit mirage of the 17th century Taj Mahal; in New Delhi, he will sleep in another reminder of India's past-the gigantic pink sandstone President's House, which used to be the palace of the British Viceroy. Today's India prefers different monuments: bustling factories that turn out locomotives and toothbrushes, diesel engines and radio sets. For all its look of the past, the ambitious young republic is forging ahead in atomic energy, quadrupling its steel capacity in a few years' time, rushing to completion...
Anthony Carfano. alias "Little Augie" Pisano, 61, started out as a two-bit bootlegger in the slums of his native Brooklyn, but he came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger...