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...unruly barons and welds England into a nation. But the simple-souled, sweet-natured sovereign is troubled by feudal underlords who feel free to have their peasants basted over slow fires or sprinkled with molten lead. Merlyn plants a revolutionary idea in the King's head, to enlist Might in the cause of Right, and Arthur begins to recruit the Round Table. This, of course, brings the peerless Sir Lancelot to court, to Queen Guenever and to the cuckoldry of poor, long-suffering Arthur. Author White tastefully tucks the 20-odd-year dalliance of "Lance" and "Jenny" between...
This was a truculent spirit headed for war. When war came in 1917, he was among the first to enlist, one of the earliest transfers to the Army Signal Corps' budding air arm. After that, there was no turning for him. "I have tasted of the air," he wrote his father, "and I cannot get it out of my craw...
Republicans of the Corn State, where the party's nod used to be enough to send a man to the Governor's chair, thus broke seniority rules to enlist the services of a fast-running newcomer. They had reason enough: Incumbent Herschel C. (for Cel-lel) Loveless, 47, rough-cut sample of the conservatism that marks today's Democratic Governors. By vetoing the legislature's extension of the sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups...
...their present one-party minority government, gathering day-to-day majorities where they may, or they will have to scout up allies from at least two parties. Possible combinations: join with the free-enterprising Liberals and the Monarchists to form a government leaning to the right, or try to enlist in a center coalition both Giovanni Malagodi's Liberals and Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats, whose leaders dislike each other. First the Christian Democrats must choose one of their own to be Premier...
...streets, sacked the Government Building, and were calmed only when Paratroop General Jacques Massu announced that he had taken power in Algiers in defiance of Paris. That left it up to Paris: to the National Assembly to capitulate or fight back; to the mobs in the street to enlist for or against the battered, precarious Fourth Republic...