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...chapel and a 10:30 lights-out. This schedule is relaxed slightly on weekends, when the general packs the omnipresent letters, plus a private secretary, into a diesel-engined black Mercedes, and heads for the Jesuit-owned Villa Cavallatti in the Alban Hills, where he tends a flower garden described by him as "a great love...
Last week, almost a quarter of a century since the German Reichstag and the Weimar Republic went up in flames together, Germany's second experiment in democracy was in the full flower of a free election. Though incumbent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer still seemed a shoo-in in a generally stodgy campaign (TIME, Sept. 2), the most significant fact about it was that the country seems directly and unmistakably headed for a two-party system. The two parties: Adenauer's Christian Democrats and the Socialists of Erich Ollenhauer...
...drift several hundred fellow U.S. Communists and fellow travelers of lesser rank. Bearded and beardless, they idle away the hours in avant-garde jazz cellars, drink tequila and loaf. But the top-line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even eggs), clip coupons or live...
...religion sprang up from the remnants of the old, and throughout rural Viet Nam last week illiterate, black-clad peasants bolted their doors at sunset, murmured incantations to the lotus flower, and talked in fearful and guarded tones of the Devil King and his Flying Men. The Devil King struck first last month at a small village 100 miles west of Saigon. His men entered a village restaurant, cold-bloodedly executed 17 men, women and children; a Buddhist was beheaded while praying...
After lunch (with two martinis) he naps for an hour, putters around in the flower garden (he tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...