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The Wrong Convention. The next morning the President felt, as he told friends, like a man who had shed a sack of cement.*He flew out to Chicago to address the National Association of Broadcasters, quipped that one of his aides had told him: "It looks to me like you...
The information is often as surprising as it is valuable. In one St. Louis suburban parish, a priest discovered that 60% of his flock still prefer devotions to the Virgin Mary - though some church reformers in recent years have endeavored to de-emphasize the importance of Mary in Catholic ritual...
FOR Kennedy, then, '68 is the lesser of at least two evils. It is also a confession of deep political unwellbeing. Even as he announced his candidacy, the junior Senator from New York looked less like a future President than ever before. He has set a nearly impossible goal for...
Cold as a Coot. In making visibility "the primary function of the King," says De Gramont, Louis XIV reduced the royal drama to pageantry-style's exquisite confession of meaninglessness. Even the King's defecation became a public act staged on a stool decorated with mother-of-pearl...
He was also systematically starved ("The fish soup is bitter and floating with eyes. I swallow the soup, eyes and all"), but he was not allowed to die because his jailers persisted in the hope of extracting a confession from him "so that we may be sure you have learned...