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...resting places: awesome Blenheim Palace, where he was born; his country home. Chartwell. a rambling gallery of Churchillian art set within a walled garden; Chequers, the Buckinghamshire retreat of British Prime Ministers; and the simple, spartan bedroom 70 ft. below Downing Street where Churchill growled through some of the darkest hours England has ever known...
...life has been as bitter as his father's darkest tragedies, and Shane O'Neill, 45, Eugene's disinherited son, believes he suffers from a tribal curse...
...document, released at long last, stirs non-Catholics with dismay and, doubtlessly, "progressive" Catholics with deep if unuttered disappointment. One searches vainly for a single fresh, forward-looking declaration. Even the Pope's offer "to intervene" in the disputes between contending peoples is hardly novel; some of the darkest pages of Western history are stained with papal interventions. Your diagnosis of the encyclical [Aug. 21] was brilliantly acute and accurate-a series of ambivalences dominated by the word "but." But in each ambivalence, the final and decisive alternative is negative, cautious, conservative, in the literal sense reactionary, and above...
...Goldwater's victory in California is hardly surprising in a state made up of misfits, political madmen, and a spirit of radical rightism that some describe as a fear hysteria unequaled since the darkest days of McCarthyism. If the American people are herded into electing Goldwater, they will get exactly what they deserve...
...Edgar Dessen, now 47, a physician, had been president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed a law providing loans to towns that could scrape up outright contributions from townspeople-as well as bank loans-to attract new industry. Dessen got a local organization going to get the money, dubbed it CAN DO, then spent three weeks trying to dream up some words to fit the initials. Finally...