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...formidable queen-empress. She was prone to take any political maneuver as a personal slight and made no secret of her dislike for such figures as Sir Robert Peel whom she once described as a "cold, unfeeling and disagreeable man" with a smile "like a silver plate on a coffin." Others benefited from Victoria's longing for a father: notably her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, a charming Whig and absolutist to whom she was deeply attached. Melbourne's indifference to reform may well have atrophied Victoria's own social conscience. But her will to be loved...
...Magritte's paintings make that point. Since most of the excellent reproductions in this book cover entire pages without frames of white space, the reader is thrust into the Belgian surrealist's enigmatic world. An immense rock floats in the sky, a bottle becomes a carrot, a coffin sits on a wall. Mercifully, the text is minimal, for Magritte's content is captivating beyond words...
...determined to make Brewster stick to this pledge. Expansion, the most obvious solution to the problem, is out because of opposition from the New Haven community. The situation is ticklish, but nobody doubts that Kingman will find a satisfactory answer to the dilemma, either by advising William Sloane Coffin to lead the student body in prayer, or by holding a torehlight procession outside of Mory...
...leader home. Aboard will be his third wife Isabelita, 41, several aides, household servants and numerous bodyguards, but not Eva, his second wife, who died in 1952 and is considered a saint by Argentina's descamisados, or shirtless ones. Her embalmed body, now lodged in a crystal-topped silver coffin, rests in a monastery near Madrid. It will probably follow later, provided Peron can find a burial place that would be safe from the devout depredations of Evita cultists or the angry assaults of anti-Peronistas...
...shot down, Aug. 17, 1968, Air Force Major Edward Elias, a prisoner since April 20, 1972, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Norris Charles, a captive since Dec. 30, 1971. All three were placed in the custody of Mrs. Weiss and Antiwar Activists David Dellinger, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Princeton International Law Professor Richard Falk. Charles' wife Olga and Mrs. Gartley were also part of the American escort. Even though they were released from prison, the flyers were not immediately allowed to leave Hanoi; instead they spent eight days relaxing, shopping and touring bombed areas in the North...