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...carefully preserved the sabre and other military relics of his illustrious ancestor, Alexandre says: "From a very early age, I preferred dolls to toy soldiers, dolls whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed him on to the Duchess of Windsor. Says Alexandre: "I owe everything to her. It was she who set me up and sent me my first customers...
...Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan, who "rescued" his country from corrupt politicians and unworkable parliamentary democracy. Ayub Khan's experiments with "basic democracies" and his attempt to remodel Western democracy to suit an illiterate untutored population may be the most important political development in the underdeveloped area for the next several years...
Except for the Communists, Mrs. Dean admires most of the leaders she writes about; she does not share Time magazine's scorn for Nkrumah and Sukarno, for example. But those she likes best (Bourguiba, Ayub Khan, Nyerere and Betancourt) are the non-ideaologues who are more concerned with social and economic achievement than with abstract principles. The necessities of conditions in these emerging nations, Mrs. Dean argues, have imposed certain pragmatic responses which Western democrats may find difficult to accept, yet the West must accept them if it is to learn to live with the underdeveloped world. First, most...
...articulate eldest brother of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who came to the U.S. in 1951, is now working with University of Washington scholars on a cultural research project on Tibet; and Kunchok Sakyapa, 16, a Seattle junior high school student and member of a family ennobled by Kublai Khan in the 13th century, who escaped from Tibet in 1959, one week after the Dalai Lama; both for the first time; in Bothell, Wash., April...
...best way to raise morale in an army is by victories in battle." Christ, "the greatest Leader of all time, gave His followers a set of principles and an unforgettable example ... He claims to be the light we need; no other man has ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their military skill, but Cromwell flunks as a political strategist. King Alfred is given the palm as "possibly the greatest king England has ever had" for combining admirably the arts of generalship and statesmanship. Tito and De Gaulle are awarded top honors...