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Road to Immortality. Political assassination, said Dr. G. Wilse Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., did not change from the time of Cain to that of the Medici, but in the modern era there has been a change in the character of the assassin. Today's hired killer wants no part of any attempt on the life of a prominent political figure. Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth...
Ironclad Rule. Surrounded by bosomy Gobelin tapestries depicting the life and love of Henri IV and his Italian queen, Marie de Medici, and warmed by the glow of a log fire, Couve kept at his workhorse job. For though the policy objectives of France are laid down in the presidential offices at the Elysee Palace, it is across the river at the Quai d'Orsay, and inside Couve's nimble and encyclopedic head, that the means for action are sorted out and applied...
...offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that so corrupted the Roman Catholic church and led at last to the Reformation. "Practice...
Saturday, December 14 EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). The story of Lorenzo de Medici is told for children. Color...
...Spanish newspaper reporting the Christine Keeler affair. There is more to it than just that swears Dali. If flies are permitted to swarm on it, he says, they will take such positions that their defecation will reveal the presently invisible heads of Socrates, Homer and Lorenzo de Medici in between the lines...