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Throughout the congressional recess and his own convalescence, Lyndon Johnson remained serenely aloof from partisan politics. When he returned to the ring last week, the President showed that he had lost none of his old élan for upstaging the opposition. Waiting until only a few hours before the G.O.P.'s Ev Dirksen and Gerry Ford were to take to TV with their "little State of the Union" message, Johnson summoned the White House press to witness a series of top-of-the-bill turns deftly calculated to steal front-page space from the Republicans...
...lan & Efficiency. In Labor politics, Jenkins has always been on the right: pro-Europe, pro-NATO, ill at ease with the party's radical, Utopian socialists. He was long in Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskells inner circle. When Wilson became Prime Minister last year, he offered Jenkins what many insiders considered a noose to hang a potential rival: the Ministry of Aviation, which was faced with the politically delicate task of arranging sharp cutbacks in Britain's aircraft production. Jenkins did the job with elan and efficiency, earning the promotion to Home Secretary. This post, too, will test...
Wednesday, November 10 I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).-In "No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise," Agents Scott and Robinson search Hong Kong for an elusive double agent whom they p lan to trade to the Communists for an American pilot. Color...
...other end of the spectrum is Manhattan's Georges Kaplan, whose co-owner and designer, Jacques Kap lan, has long been one of society's favorite purveyors of both conventional and novel furs. For mothers and daughters, he offers matching Mondrian-dyed rabbit dressed with red, green and white rectangles - $395 for her and $295 for her daughter...
...uncomplicated age. There were bad and good, rich and poor, oppressors and liberators, fascists and socialists. The dreams of the revolutionary idealists were shattered in 1939 when Stalin signed his nonaggression pact with Hitler. From then on, says Kazin, the role of the intellectuals was forever changed: "The élan of their lives, revolutionary faith in the future, was missing. History was now a tangle of meanings, without clear-cut issue. What would never come back, in this most political of ages, was the faith in a wholly new society that had been implicit in the revolutionary ideal...