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...crowds of Romans this week to take formal possession of the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome-the great, grey basilica of St. John Lateran. Popes in bygone times used to make the short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened the occasion with incident: Clement XIV (1769-74), for instance, fell from his horse on dismounting, only to assure alarmed aides that he was "confusus" but not "contusus." Sixtus V (1585-90) corrected the flattering observation of an ambassador that he had "mounted easily" with the admonition: "No, we are old and heavy because we have...
...carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills, whose husband, onetime Washington Post Owner Edward B. McLean, died in a mental institution. Some previous owners: King Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, English Banker Henry Thomas Hope, and Subaya, favorite of Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid, who murdered...
...sure, the commission had a few changes to suggest. On controversial Article XIV, it proposed that the Constitutional Council pass on the President of France's right to assume dictatorial powers whenever, in his judgment, national security was gravely threatened. The parliamentary commission also thought too harsh De Gaulle's implied ruling (TIME, Aug. 18) that any overseas territory casting a majority vote against the new constitution in next month's referendum would be considered to have voted itself clean out of the French Union. Instead, they proposed that, in such a case, the territorial assembly...
...plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation of the sun on earth, and he rules through a court more rigid in its ritual than that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Each week, after the nobles have abased themselves before him, the Moro Naba heads for a splendidly caparisoned stallion. But just as he is about to mount, his Chief of Eunuchs confronts him and begs him not to ride away. With the same angry gesture he uses every Friday...
...between France and Algeria-and in the process to give France a new sense of mission. "Some countries," Malraux proclaimed, "are never greater than when they fall back upon themselves-England, for instance. But the greatest France in the eyes of the world is not the France of Louis XIV; it is the France of the Crusades and that of the Revolution. And the French will not forgive others, or themselves, for becoming a people without a mission...