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...date, he has mainly strutted in the wings. Since moving his household to Buenos Aires eleven weeks ago, he has wavered between spells of puzzling inertia and bursts of curious action. Toward the end of his initial 23 days of illness and introspection, Peron sacked his "servant" from the presidency. Yet the master did not assume the post himself. Instead, he appointed another surrogate, Raul Lastiri, whose major claim to minor fame was his relationship (son-in-law) to Perón's personal secretary and astrologer, José López Rega...
Although there had been growing discontent over government inertia and corruption in recent months, the takeover came as a surprise to most in Kabul. The coup was launched during the night. Army units moved through the capital and surrounded the palace, the airport and other key buildings. According to reliable reports, several officers loyal to the King were executed...
...savior: Democrat Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 62, the man who had served three terms as mayor, from 1954 to 1965. As mayor, Wagner made some advances in civil rights, increased the police force and kept peace with the unions; but in many other areas he exhibited a glacial inertia, and he left the city with more potholes in its streets and more holes in its civic pride than he had inherited. Indeed, Rockefeller and Rose supported Lindsay in 1965 as the man who could best "save" New York City after it had slid under Mayor Wagner. Last week Wagner played...
...work this year. This year the Committee has been working on problems of Freshman education; next year Kiely wants the focus to be on education in the Houses. Several of the members credit him with having resurrected the CUE this year from an early death-by-inertia. They like his ability to steer them away from proposals that are predictable losers in a faculty vote almost as much as they like his openmindedness. "He's definitely not a great radical innovator, but he clearly wants to get things done," says one CUE undergraduate. "He's an administration...
...parents took their only child back and lavished guilty affection on him. "It was a hellish year," he says flatly, "because I was living with two children." But a year later his mother died. The doctors' diagnosis was pneumonia, but Castaneda's is accidie, a condition of numbed inertia, which he believes is the cultural disease of the West. He offered a touching memory: "She was morose, very beautiful and dissatisfied; an ornament. My despair was that I wanted to make her something else, but how could she listen to me? I was only...