Word: interior
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Crew cut, athletic and a war hero, Stewart Udall was a perfect fit with John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. As Secretary of the Interior, he won acclaim for expanding national parks and garnered headlines for leading officials on 50- mile hikes. As a lawyer-lobbyist, Udall stayed in Washington until 1979, when a new cause called him home...
Even given its ocean barriers and the ecological safety margins provided by its vast interior spaces and abundant resources, America is vulnerable to transnational environmental threats such as global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion. "A new kind of international security threat is advancing on us," warns Gus Speth, president of the World Resources Institute in Washington, a leading environmental think tank. "The world's geopolitical systems may be faring better, but its ecological systems are in trouble...
More than ever, French politicians and commentators are blaming Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, for the current outbreak of intolerance. Recent polls give him the support of 15% of the population. After Carpentras, Interior Minister Pierre Joxe called Le Pen a racist and a provocateur. The National Front leader has aimed his invective mainly at North Africans. But he has also made outrageous remarks about Jews, calling the Nazi gas chambers "a point of detail" in history and making a pun involving the word crematory on a Jewish minister's name...
...trained as a painter; several of his mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats...
...followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...