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...pomp and circumstance worthy of his impressive titles, a bespectacled Nepalese named Mahendra was last week crowned King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor. With the towering Himalayas as a backdrop, and money no object, it was the subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise...
...could control immigration completly. Similarly, there is some fear that Free Harvard would automatically become a Theocracy, under the sway of President Pusey and a College of Cardinals (Red Kellogg, P. Tillich, etc.). Actually, a national church would be beneficial. For one thing, there would be a lot more pomp, of which there is too little in these meagre days...
...President: Succeeding the first President of the Italian Republic, old (81), mild Luigi Einaudi, who contented himself with cornerstone laying and self-effacement, Gronchi has attempted to build up the prestige and power of the presidency. He has stepped up pomp and circumstance of the Quirinal Palace itself, which is guarded by 120 of the most imposing soldiers in Italy, the 6-ft.-6-in. cuirassiers. Has made more speeches and covered more miles in his first nine months than Einaudi did in seven years. In contrast to Einaudi, he accepts petitions, receives delegations, summons government ministers to discuss their...
Even before he signed a bill passed by Congress ending the state of siege imposed by an interim administration last November, Kubitschek abolished the military patrols guarding Catete. With no time to waste on pomp, he canceled the guard ceremonies traditionally held every time the President entered or left the palace. To thin out and speed up the flow of papers and persons through Catete's corridors, he personally supervised a wholesale redistribution of office space. He trimmed the Catete staff from 586 to 392, shut down the three palace kitchens that had been serving lunch (on the house...
...from Cornerstones. In Gronchi's nine months in office, Stevens noted as he entered Quirinale Palace between gleaming rows of grenadier guards, Gronchi has brought back much of the pomp and ceremony that went out with King Umberto II in 1946. In that brief time, Giovanni Gronchi has also managed, by double force of his ambition and his personality, to raise the presidency from the cornerstone-laying, banquet-attending job it started out to be. "Not only does he intrude on the [Premier's] powers," Stevens reported, "he also crowds him out of the limelight and steals...