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Even as the new Premier was sworn in, Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
Field Agents. If Rockefeller somehow succeeds in getting the nomination, his Miami Beach miracle could work to McCarthy's benefit because the Democrats might well have second thoughts with Rockefeller as an adversary. Like Rockefeller, McCarthy needs a deus ex machina. Like Rockefeller, he is trying to help Providence in a number of ways. His organization has proclaimed a "Month for McCarthy," a high-powered drive involving the dispersal of 55 field agents around the country to build up pressure on delegates. Telephone and letter-writing campaigns are being aimed at convention-bound Democrats. Lawsuits are being planned in some...
...China, which the proponents of the Vietnam conflict for a while bravely pictured as the deus ex machina, is rent within itself. Its assumed puppet in Hanoi, likes its earlier puppet in North Korea, has publicly asserted its independence. Not even the most ardent defender of the war can now believe that Hanoi wants to be part of a Chinese-led empire...
...sorrows come short stories. Still, the man who presumes to take an hour out of the reader's life had better have some comedy or magic up his sleeve. John Cheever does. His much anthologized piece, The Enormous Radio, again presents its enigmas. Cheever examines modern technological superstitions-deus in machina-in the form of a radio set with God's own ear for private conversation, and thus makes a nightmare of a cozy modern apartment...
...family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...