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Thus did Dante Alighieri stigmatize men of affluence, looking at commerce from his rather remote and medieval vantage point. Dante dominates and illuminates this week's BOOKS section in a story that marks the 700th anniversary of his birth and is justly titled A Man for the Ages...
...Prime Ministers of many of those nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon...
...concern about Sir Winston Churchill," Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a major House of Commons speech and an economic report to the nation on TV, also put off an important round of talks with West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Britain was to have commemorated the 700th anniversary of the first Parliament last week, but in deference to Parliament's greatest son. Lords and Commons agreed to put off the ceremonies until June...
...retirement, West Germany's 87-year-old Chancellor remained faithful to that maxim. This week Ludwig Erhard, his longtime Economics Minister, against whose succession he had fought bitterly, takes over as Chancellor. In Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, Adenauer gaveled to order the 700th and last Cabinet meeting since he took office...
...Magic Eye. Even getting arrested had been an ordeal, Malskat testified. No one wanted to believe him, and for good reason. The recent 700th anniversary of Lübeck's St. Mary's, centered around the "restored" church murals, had been the civic event of a generation, attended by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and celebrated, with 2,000,000 special anniversary stamps showing a detail from Malskat's forged work. Lübeck winced as Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside...