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AFTER the long weeks of self-imposed silence and isolation that ended with his second Inaugural, President Nixon re-emerged on the Washington scene last week with all the fervor of a missionary among the unbelieving. He delivered to Congress a $268 billion budget with more than 100 cuts in federal spending, and then an economic report promising that 1973 would be a "great year." He announced that he was sending his versatile adviser, Henry Kissinger, first to Hanoi for three days in February, and then to Peking for further talks on improving relations between the U.S. and China...
...Lyndon the patriot, who choked up at the sight of Old Glory on a foreign field and could say-because he wanted to believe it in defiance of the facts-that his great grandfather had died in the Alamo with Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. Johnson's patriotic fervor made him implacable on Viet Nam, the tragedy that pulled him from office. He was determined that "I'm not going down in history as the first American President to lose a war." He related Viet Nam to Texas: "Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed...
When consummation seems unavoidable, the nude Chloe stretches out on her bed in wait for him, but Frederic, in a fit of moral fervor, sneaks out the back door and rushes home to this wife like a sheepish criminal. Helene breaks out in a fit of weeping, suggesting that she too has been spending an illicit interlude. Frederic sweeps her off to bed a-quiver with righteous reaffirmation of his marriage vows...
...drafty isolation cell of Kensington Palace, with only her beloved governess Lehzen to moderate Conroy's schemes, Victoria was the object of endless political intrigue between court factions who wanted to influence the future monarch. "I will be good," the 11-year-old Victoria exclaimed with fervor when Lehzen revealed to her that one day she would be Queen. But life, meanwhile, was cruelly tedious. "I am very fond of pleasant society," she complained when 16, "and we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace. I longed sadly for some gaiety." The princess...
...unwillingness to join his ruling Congress Party, their refusal to take loyalty oaths, and their exclusivist claims to religious truth. A Congress Party convention in September demanded that the Witnesses be expelled from their jobs and property, and since then party zealots have been carrying out the mandate with fervor. One company with 200 employees was shut down because it refused to fire a Witness who worked there. Huts have been burnt, and as many as 60 Witnesses may have been killed. Most of the Witnesses have fled to a calamitously overcrowded refugee camp across the border in Zambia, where...