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Prime Minister Ian Smith proceeded last week with his grand plan for solving the Rhodesian crisis-on his own terms. First, he aims to win the country's Aug. 31 elections in order to head off a threat to his government from a new, right-wing splinter group (TIME, Aug. 1). Then, with his mandate reinforced, he hopes to create a moderate, multiracial government in Rhodesia that would include both whites and some conservative black nationalists-but not leaders of the radical Patriotic Front with its guerrilla army...
Died. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 49, younger brother of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; of a heart attack; at his estate in Florence, Italy. A dashing, fun-loving sportsman, Charles was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality. In 1967 he wed Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of former U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon...
...Today it is called Beatlemania. The phenomenon, moreover, now laced with wistful nostalgia and what passes for a sort of panting social philosophy, far transcends the domain of disk jockeydom and bedroom stereo. Would anyone in his right mind pay $17.50 for a ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously clutter the landscape...
...Peter Paul Rubens, one of the five grand masters of 17th century painting-the others, by general consent, being Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Poussin-was born 400 years ago this summer, on June 28, 1577. This birthday has raised memorial exhibitions all over Europe. No anniversary of a comparably great figure could launch so many shows, because Rubens was so prolific. A thousand or so paintings, more than 2,000 drawings, sown from Leningrad to Washington: Rubens was the grand inseminator of the Baroque, a monster of controlled fecundity, erudition and discipline. The biggest Rubens show, the text to which...
Such ambitions presupposed a very grand rhetoric, which Rubens based squarely on his study of classical art. As a young man in Rome, he made a sketch of every antique marble he could lay eyes on. His vast correspondence shows that he had read and memorized work by almost every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead...