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...several times, and in 1956 served as military attache to the Chilean embassy in Washington. Although a number of Chile's top-ranking officers are Masons, the junta leader, who is married and the father of five children, is a practicing Catholic. Generally he is regarded as a colorless professional who tends to be conservative. Until last week, he had never seemed very interested in political matters. But that, along with much else in Chilean life, is certain to change in the hard months ahead...
...Colorless Taste...
...Wave during introductions, smile, turn to all sides of the arena and acknowledge the applause. Many U.S. athletes act glum as if they are about to be shot in the next minute." Matson, the world record holder (71 ft. 5½ in.) in the shotput, but a rather colorless performer, recognizes the problem. "If everyone was like me," he says, "nobody would come out and watch...
...printing the identity of the M16 director, under threat of enacting the dire provisions of the Official Secrets Act. Nonetheless, newsmen, diplomats, foreign spies, and presumably even the waiters at his London clubs (Brook's and Bath) were aware that for the past four years C was a colorless civil servant named Sir John Ogilvy Rennie, 59, with the innocuous title of Deputy Undersecretary of State...
...referendum that Pompidou too cleverly planned as a kind of national vote of confidence. Then came the scandals-notably the flap over former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas's tax returns (TIME, Feb. 14)-the Cabinet shuffles and the gray replacements. Chaban-Delmas's successor, Pierre Messmer, a colorless veteran of De Gaulle's Cabinets, made his debut in the Pompidou government in a saccharine and self-serving interview on the government TV network that left many Frenchmen with what Le Monde sadly described as a feeling "of embarrassment, almost of shame...