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...Elysée Palace to a dinner with Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. Borman proved himself a deft diplomat. In England he pointed out that Apollo's fuel cell was based on an invention by a Cambridge scientist. In Paris he praised French Science Fiction Author Jules Verne in a personal letter to his grandson, Jean-Jules Verne. After an audience with President Charles de Gaulle, he reported, with just the right touch of humility: "I was awed. I realized I was in the presence of a great...
...dissenters are John and Charles Wesley (March 3), the 18th century founders of Methodism, George Fox (Jan. 13), the 17th century founder of the Society of Friends, and John Bunyan (Aug. 31), the Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without...
Such incidents abound, lively as rab bits, in Fetishism: Pets and Their People in the Western World (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $5.95). Author Kath leen Szasz tells of the great Dane that came to its owner's wedding in top hat and, of course, tails; of the New York City dog whose owner listed him in the phone book, "in case his friends want ed to telephone him"; of the pair of Saint Bernards that follow their master everywhere - in their own chauffeured station wagon. But there is little glee in the telling. Author Szasz, 56, a Hungarian-born translator...
...merciless. Rising at the crack, grumped German Journalist Johannes Gross recently, condemns modern man to the life of peasants. Mutters Pablo Picasso, "I understand why they execute condemned men at dawn. I just have to see the dawn in order to have my head roll all by itself." Hungarian Author Ferenc Molnar was so unaccustomed to daylight that once, when he was dragooned into jury duty in the early morning, he looked incredulously at the thronged streets of Budapest and asked, "Are they all jurors...
...question of "Does the Law Work for You?" with contributors grappling with the problems of "The Psychiatrist and the Legal Process" and the perceptions of witnesses in court. "We discovered that the more punitive people in each of our groups had better recall than the less punitive," writes the author, who disputes the idea that the adversary system "can winnow out the truth...