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...years after he was booted off his throne, Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk is still his country's most popular whipping boy. Accused of all sorts of high and low crimes, Farouk got word from Cairo last week that he is now up for a new title: "Most dangerous thief of Egyptian antiquities." His accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared...
...leadership. With spending bills blooming in every congressional committee room, the President's budget seemed as doomed as a wounded impala before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill has been either trimmed to size or killed by vetos the Democrats could not override. With the 86th Congress, first session already past the midway point, the balanced budget appears not only possible...
...weak man, a Russian Hamlet to whom reality itself is the greatest antagonist. (The figure of Hamlet dominates Zhivago's conception of himself, culminating in the most notable of his poems collected at the end of the book.) The collection of pygmies in the Soviet Writers Union, besides their fatuous forays against Zhivago's politics complained that the character lacked a social conscience, that the book itself was devoid of a social meaning. And, in a way, it is legitimate criticism. When a protagonist of great stature fails to come to terms with reality, it is seldom a social novel...
...appalled at the fatuous spinelessness of so large a segment of America's fourth estate. Editors of great newspapers should have a more comprehensive appreciation of the cold, hard facts of history...
...support. Baggs set up a six-man editorial board to grill candidates in off-the-record sessions. As Florida's Democratic primary campaign drew to a close this week, the result of Baggs's inquisition was an editorial policy far more savvy, far less likely to be fatuous than the old hit-or-miss ways...