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Georgia's hebetudinous Lester Maddox last week denounced textbooks, films and courses that fail to glorify the U.S. Speaking to the Governor's Conference on Education, the former fried-chicken king said: "Some things have been added that should be burned-and you know it." One item that particularly inflamed him was a textbook that called Patrick Henry an "agitator." Maddox said he had been raised to think of Henry as a hero. The audience of educators and school-board members replied with scattered applause. Cross burning may be a dying art in the South, but if Maddox...
...they spotted the faint beam of a flashlight. By walkie-talkie, they confirmed that their man was ready to be picked up. Two crewmen hopped into a rubber dinghy and paddled to the beach. Twenty minutes later, they were back with a passenger: George Mylonas, 50, Greece's former Under Secretary for Education, who had been exiled to the island 14 months earlier by the military junta as a "threat to public security...
...have said it right. Nearly everywhere, the places of power seem occupied by faceless and forgettable bureaucrats, technocrats or nonentities. "Charisma," one of the dominant clichés of the '60s, is clearly on the wane. Charles de Gaulle has left the Elysée Palace to his former lieutenant, Georges Pompidou, a banker and lover of poetry who, however, shows little poetry in his political style. West Germany has not had an inspirational leader since Adenauer, or Britain since Churchill; a contest between Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory Leader Ted Heath would involve a choice...
...commissions, for example, Massachusetts recently enacted a law that permits a landowner to keep his property while selling the development rights to a town, city or charitable organization, thus permanently protecting the area as open space. It is the slickest-and cheapest -scheme for land-banking since former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall encouraged the idea of buying the rights to a property's scenery...
...among the first of a rapidly growing number of former professional officers who have become top civilian executives in Israel. Since the Six-Day War, nearly 100 former generals and colonels have taken command positions in private or government-owned industry, banking, utilities, commerce and transportation. Often, they are recruited to executive suites a year or more before they pick up their first pension check, and can choose among a dozen offers...