Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a man who has come a long way, not just on this night, but on so many years of nights when his way of life kept him aloft. He is a scarred warrior, accustomed to discomfort, danger and travail. He is not to be defeated; for having so many times emerged victorious, no other outcome enters his thinking. His home is in his flight bag, his wardrobe a rumpled uniform, and his office...
While Feisal stuck to his ledgers, King Saud practiced the gritty game of desert politics that he had learned on horseback at the side of his one-eyed warrior father Ibn Saud. First he moved grandly to the left of his brother Feisal, intrigued the kingdom's newspaper editors with talk of a transition from feudal to parliamentary rule (TIME, May 30). Then he flew to West Germany, drew out $50 million which he had providently tucked away in a bank there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over...
THIGHS like the stems of banana trees, hands like opening lotus flowers-such, in Buddhist legend, is the formula for sculpting a statue of Buddha. See ART, Inspired Copyists. pHILOCTETES was an illustrious Greek warrior who received his in vincible weapons of war - bow and ar rows - from his dying friend Hercules...
...into brief prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances he had spurned. But after that, mythology's Baedeker records little of Chryse, and some...
First to make the charge was Colonel Jean Gardes, 46, formerly France's top psychological warrior in Algiers. Gardes, who took the stand in full uniform, wearing white gloves and an array of 24 medals and citations collected in World War II and the Indo-China war, had volunteered for duty in Algeria, believing that "there we lead the last struggle of free men." Soon after his arrival in Algiers, said Gardes, General Maurice Challe, De Gaulle's own appointee as commander in chief in Algeria, had assured him that the army was firmly behind a French Algeria...