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...Malraux went to work for Charles de Gaulle. As Minister of Culture, he gave Paris a new luster by ordering its grimy buildings scrubbed and floodlit. More important, he brought a new glow to French cultural life-at least on its façade-by his grand subsidies to the arts and, most of all, by his personal distinction. Still to many a former leftist admirer, his acceptance of a government post amounted to a sellout of his principles. "How can you hear me now, Andre Malraux?" asked Film Director Jean-Luc Godard. "I am telephoning from the outside...
...Another poll, conducted by New York's John H. Kraft, Inc., revealed, to no one's astonishment, that members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. overwhelmingly fa vor the re-election of Lyndon Johnson in 1968. The report, based on inter views with 1,700 unionists, showed the President a 55%-to-22% favorite over Nixon, 46%-to-30% favorite over Romney, and a 60%-to-16% choice over Reagan. There was one surprise, though, and a portent of trouble. A.F.L.-C.I.O. members under the age of 30, more flexible in their political allegiances than their fathers, preferred Romney over...
...they do Brezhnev. Correct, levelheaded, with a taste for anonymity and a dull, if cultured, public speaking voice, Kosygin emphasizes moderation and maintenance of peace. He is a widower-his wife Klavdia died of cancer last month-and has a married daughter, Liudmila Gvishiani. For all his drab public façade, Kosygin is capable of sharp, dry wit. On a visit to Britain last February, while dining with Tory Leader Ted Heath, he observed: "It is less fun to be in opposition in some countries than in others...
Freedom to Destroy. The Bolsheviks at first tried to provide a façade of popular approval for their takeover. Certain that they would triumph, they permitted Kerensky's elections for a Constituent Assembly to be held. To their chagrin, they got only 175 seats out of 707. The delegates* had met for only 17 hours when Lenin ordered his soldiers to disband the Assembly forever. What Kerensky and the provisional governments' other well-meaning democrats had accomplished in eight months was little more than to provide Lenin with sufficient freedom to destroy them. Kerensky himself went into...
...year in washing, cleaning, repairing and repainting bills to the budget of a family with two or three children in New York City, according to a study made by Irving Michelson, a consultant in environmental health and safety. Because of fly ash and soot from smokestacks, the main façade of Manhattan's New York Hilton was so badly discolored that it had to be replaced last year, only 31 years after the hotel was completed. Ozone, a principal component of photochemical smog, discolors and disintegrates clothing and causes rubber to become brittle and crack...