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Indeed, Simon almost instantaneously has propelled himself into the elite circle of Administration officials -which includes Schlesinger, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary George Shultz-who run vital parts of the Government as virtual baronies under a distracted monarch. Simon's predecessor as energy policy chief, John Love, complained that he could not get Nixon's attention; in five months in office, he was able to see the President alone only four or five times. Self-confident Simon took office proclaiming that he did not need to go running to the White House on every decision...
...true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite model, an inhabitant of the Deer Park (as the villa where the royal mistresses lived was called) known as la petite Morfil. Miss Murphy was an Irish girl whom the Pompadour pro cured for her flagging monarch by the utterly rococo device of getting Boucher to paint her as the Virgin Mary in a decoration for one of the royal chapels. She is the ancestor of all the midinettes and grisettes and rotund milkmaids that Renoir was to paint a century later...
...Hairy Star." According to some biblical interpretations, a bright comet appeared over Judea around 7 B.C. shortly before the birth of Jesus. Oracles told King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared...
...that the Arabs were determined to stand fast this time and that they could not be "forthcoming" on the issue of energy as long as the U.S. held its old position on Israel. It is a measure of the rise of Arab power in world affairs that the absolute monarch of a far-off desert kingdom can make life difficult for Americans...
Unlikely Catalyst. In short, the tables have turned in the oil trade?and in oil diplomacy. Largely because Feisal has withheld his oil, the sellers now completely dominate the buyers. In many ways, Feisal is an unlikely catalyst for such sweeping change. He is basically the monarch of a 19th century state that is edging cautiously into modern times (see box page...