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...dignity, apologizing for nothing, defiantly reminding his judges that he is an old man and indifferent to what they can do to him. Menderes has lost stature by his air of abject humility and his voluble eagerness to shift responsibility to anybody but himself. To many of his once fervent supporters, he no longer seems like the great man who ran Turkey so smoothly and so long...
...Balthus, there has always been an aura of mystery. He rarely exhibits his work, and he himself lives in virtual seclusion in a gloomy medieval chateau near Autun. He has shunned all of the schools that in successive waves have swept over Paris, but he can claim among his fervent admirers some of the most prestigious names in French art. One admirer is Pablo Picasso, who has a prized Balthus painting of two children in his Vallauris villa. Another is Minister of Culture André Malraux, who three months ago flabbergasted Paris by making the eccentric Balthus director...
...burly, beak-nosed boss of the Social Christians. At 47, Lefèvre belongs to a rising new generation of European leaders, is scarcely known outside his own country. A wartime resistance leader, tough, determined Lefèvre entered Parliament at 32 as a fervent royalist. When his party's old guard acquiesced to the Socialists' demand for Leopold III's abdication, Lefèvre organized a "Young Turks" revolt, and took over the party leadership. The oldtimers growled, "Let him break his bones on the job." Instead, he built up the Social Christian propaganda apparatus, tightened...
...late husband's brother-in-law. For his coronation as King of the Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...
...school integration "has been effectively carried out." The wholly temporal reason was that parochial schools, which enroll half the white pupils in New Orleans, get tax-paid books and supplies from the segregationist state legislature. The archbishop's flock also includes some of the South's most fervent racists, among them Boss Leander Perez, who threatened to withhold money and students if parochial schools even began to integrate...