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This week, Lee reviews Jesus Rediscovered, by Britain's Malcolm Muggeridge, whom he finds weak on God and grace, but "brilliantly funny on their adversaries the world, the flesh and the devil. Fiat Nox (let there be night) he sees as the first commandment of the modern world." In lighter vein, Lee tells us that he has found a name for the small house in Italy that he and his wife Essie have bought from an actor named Arnoldo Foa. Since the place has only a sometime well, and awaits a regular water supply, Lee calls...
...Davis, the son of a White House economic adviser during the Truman Administration and an organizer for the National Mobilization Committee. Black Panther Bobby Scale came to the Chicago convention almost by chance. He was filling in as a speaker for Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole board refused to let him leave California. The other defendants are John Froines, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, and Lee Weiner, a Northwestern University graduate student...
...program may be time. If Richard Nixon, in response to domestic pressure, feels compelled to accelerate U.S. withdrawals, the program could fail. If the pullout is gradual, it might work. "It is a very hopeful idea," said a Pentagon official of Vietnamization. "It is the only one that will let us get out of there eventually. But please, Jet's not go too fast...
...rale du Travail, warned that Pompidou's term of office "might well be short" because of labor unrest. Without mentioning Seguy by name, Pompidou responded with noticeable speed-and anger. He was convinced, he told his Cabinet last week, that workers "will not be duped and will not let themselves be drawn into irrelevant or violent actions." In any case, he warned, the government would take every step to ensure "republican order is maintained...
...grated on Pompidou. Perhaps France could have happiness and honor, gratification and glory? Nowhere did Pompidou express that view more trenchantly than at Ajaccio, Corsica, birthplace of Napoleon. Marking the bicentennial of Napoleon's birth last month, Pompidou pointed out: "In fact, he did not find happiness and, let me add, never bestowed it on France. However, despite the lack of happiness, he attained the pinnacles of grandeur, and endowed France with it to such a point that ever since our people have not resigned themselves to mediocrity and always answered the appeal to honor." Continued Pompidou...