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...failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations -which began to fall apart 30 years ago when it proved unable to enforce economic sanctions against Mussolini...
...delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville...
...right place at the right time, plus millisecond timing, that by 1931 made him the Associated Press's star Berlin photographer, the man who caught the mature genius in 14-year-old Yehudi Menuhin and recorded the cautious size-up of Hitler's first meeting with Mussolini...
...Mussolini Modern. Obviously, something needs to be done in a hurry; yet Congress has not got around to appropriating funds to remedy the situation. The reason is a dispute over Capitol Architect J. George Stewart's plan to replace the west front with a massive $34 million extension. Stewart claims that the old walls cannot safely be repaired or replaced in their present position, and that the arches supporting the building might collapse if the temporary shoring is removed. Moreover, he adds, his plan would add 41 acres of badly needed floor space within easy reach of the House...
...restored, point out that damaged walls have been successfully repaired in such far older buildings as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. They also resent the fact that Stewart is an engineer rather than an architect and ridicule the "Mussolini Modern" aspect of the huge-and hugely expensive-Rayburn House Office Building, erected under his aegis...